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Inflammatory bowel disease

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Prevention

Consider screening patients with inflammatory bowel disease for cancer by annual assessment with endoscopy (or radiography if not available) c

Why?

  • Patients with inflammatory bowel disease who have adequate treatment and surveillance are not more likely to die or have any intestinal cancer than the general population. c


Expiry date: July 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   L   Friedman
CAT Writers   D   Ford , CM   Ball