Occurrence of Colorectal Cancer and the Influence of Medical Treatment in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study, 1997 to 2015.
Petra WeimersDorit Vedel AnkersenEllen Christine Leth LøkkegaardJohan BurischPia MunkholmPublished in: Inflammatory bowel diseases (2022)
Medical treatment does not appear to affect the risk of CRC in patients with IBD. The overall risk of developing CRC is significantly increased in patients with IBD as compared with the general population. However, when excluding patients diagnosed with CRC within 6 months of their IBD diagnosis, the elevated risk disappears.