UC cases are rising, reveal St Mark’s Hospital experts

Ulcerative colitis is rising, says a study by three St Mark’s Hospital specialists in the March issue of the Royal College of Physicians journal.

That is the finding of a paper titled “Ulcerative colitis: an update” by St. Mark’s consultant gastroenterologist Professor Ailsa Hart and gastroenterology fellow Jean-Frederic Le Blanc and former St Mark’s research fellow Jonathan P Segal.

Yet – fascinatingly – as the number of uc cases grows, so do the treatments and techniques used by hospitals and gastroenterologists to help cure and combat the problem.

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