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We'd all love to cut our risk of cancer if possible. And while there are lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your risk, it's difficult to know what steps we can take to try our best to prevent ourselves from developing the disease.But a new study has successfully shown more than 90 per cent accuracy in predicting bowel cancer risk over the next five years, based on a high-risk group of people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

People with IBD, such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, are known to have an increased chance of developing bowel cancer. But having one of these conditions does not automatically mean you will develop the illness.People with IBD are currently offered routine screenings for pre-cancerous growths in the gut.

If found, these suggest a 30 per cent chance of developing bowel cancer within 10 years.Funded by Cancer Research UK and published in the journal Gut, the new study discovered that DNA alterations in these pre-cancerous cells, when analysed by an algorithm, can predict with more than 90 per cent accuracy who will develop bowel cancer within the next five years.This method could eventually lead to a straightforward blood tests that can identify IBD patients who are most at risk of developing bowel cancer, researchers hope.Georgia Sturt, research and grants manager at Bowel Research UK said: “Today’s research is an exciting step forward in helping identify people with Crohn’s or colitis who are most at risk of bowel cancer, which is important because it can be worrying if pre-cancerous growths are found in routine checks for these patients, as we don’t know for sure whether they will develop into cancer.“For people without a condition like Crohn’s or colitis, there are many

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