By the way, doctor: Cancer of the small intestine
Given the small number of cases, the risk isn't very large, but some conditions do increase the likelihood of developing small bowel cancer — chronic inflammation of the small bowel from a condition like Crohn's disease, for example. And people with celiac disease, an allergy to dietary gluten, are more prone than others to developing lymphomas of the small bowel.
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