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Family cancer burden predicts risk in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who have several close relatives with colorectal cancer are significantly more likely to develop the disease themselves.
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This is demonstrated by a new Swedish registry study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Gastroenterology . The findings raise the question of whether future cancer screening guidelines should place greater emphasis on the number of cancer cases in a patient's family.
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