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,

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

A new method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher risk people will develop the disease, research found.

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