The findings were presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla., showing that found IBD could pose a 37 percent higher risk for developing skin cancer.
IBD is broadly used to describe inflammatory responses in the gastrointestinal tract, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The most common IBDs are ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease, which share similarities in how the immune system abnormally responds to infections by inflaming the intestinal lining that leads to issues including watery diarrhea, rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, fever, and weight loss.
Read more at Medical Daily: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Raises Your Risk Of Melanoma By 37%
