UA Researchers to Study Protein’s Role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colon Cancer
About 1.6 million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which encompasses several painful and complex disorders that include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
What’s more, chronic inflammation in the intestinal tract, prevalent with IBD, has been linked to the development of colon cancer. Each year, nearly 142,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with colon cancer and about 50,000 die.
Although IBD can occur at any age, it’s most often diagnosed in children and young adults.