A NEW method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90 per cent accurate at predicting which higher risk people will develop the disease, research has shown. People with inflammatory bowel

Scientists say a groundbreaking new test can predict patients at high risk of developing bowel cancer with 90 per cent accuracy. The study, published in the journal Gut, could lead to blood testing for those with irritable bowel diseases like ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s who were most at risk of developing bowel cancer and help avoid some invasive procedures.

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

An accurate new blood test for colon cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, has been reported.