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Effective Refractory Celiac Disease Treatment

A small but frustrating percentage of people with celiac disease can’t seem to get better despite maintaining a vigilant gluten-free diet. In the past, these people were diagnosed with refractory celiac disease (RCD). Today they will be diagnosed with non-responsive celiac disease (NRCD), and a smaller subset of these individuals will be diagnosed with refractory

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