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Celiac Disease and Cancer

Celiac disease is strongly associated with certain forms of cancer. Find out which cancers are involved and what you can do to greatly minimize your risk. The association grows stronger with poor diagnosis and poor treatment. Read on to learn what leads to poor diagnosis and poor treatment and what you can do about it.

Poor Treatment of Celiac Disease May Lead to Cancer

If you have celiac disease and you don’t strictly adhere to a gluten-free diet, you greatly increase your risk for two serious cancers falling under lymphoproliferative malignancy (LPM): non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and T-cell lymphoma. We’ve known that celiac disease and cancer have a strong association, but the evidence is becoming more specific and more compelling. Recent