A new DNA test developed in the UK can accurately predict whether high-risk patients will develop colorectal cancer in the five years. People with inflammatory bowel disease — which includes conditions like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s — are up to four times more likely to get this type of cancer,

A new study has shown more than 90% accuracy in predicting bowel cancer risk, based on a high-risk group of people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), over the next five years.People with IBD,

The method could be used to develop a blood test to identify inflammatory-bowel-disease patients most at risk.