Celiac Disease And Cancer Risk
The part about higher risks probably sounds scary, but there’s good news: your heightened risk of those specific types of cancers seems to taper off the longer you’ve been following the gluten-free diet. Meanwhile, your reduced risk of certain other cancers may stay lower than normal. Confused? It all likely has to do with how your body reacts to the inflammation, intestinal damage and nutritional deficiencies brought on by villous atrophy in celiac diseases....