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Does cohn disease increase your risk for colon cancer?
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Chronic inflammation: Can always trigger excess cell turnover, which could lead to cancerous cells forming.
Answered 9/28/2016
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While Chron's can: Have varied course, it can affect the entire gut. It's cousin, ulcerative colitis that affects the large bowel, is the cancer prone malady. Chron's, aka regional enteritis, can cause a great deal of misery, but it is not usually a cancer prone illness.
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