Again, you're talking apples and oranges. For UC, there are
familial links. For IBS, there may be links, but it's not clearly
defined. For example, most professional and highly skilled
amateur athletes have very low instance of IBS. This is not
the case with UC, since there is a fairly strong genetic link.
My friend who has UC uncle died at 32. Those days it wasn't
complete understood what happened to him, but my friend
almost died with the same symptoms.

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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You're talking about anecdotal
evidence vs. actual reliable data.


Because of the highly variable symptoms for UC and IBS, just about every
study
made has been based on anecdotal data, inlcuding the familial link
statistics
cited recently at 15-20%, below the keying factor. As for cancer rates,
IBS
patients have a higher rate and UC patients are told to get scoped twice
as
often for just this reason. A person with UC needs to be scoped at a
younger
age as well. Some doctors suggest 35 as a starting point.
Here's a link.
http://ibscrohns.about.com/library/b...itiscancer.htm

And this from the CFSN site:

Irritable bowel syndrome is an epidemic in the United States. More than 5%
of
the population is afflicted by "idiopathic" (cause unknown) bowel
discomfort,
urgency, and diarrhea type symptoms. IBS can progress to colitis, but is
different in that colonoscopy finds no obvious pathological changes in the
bowel.

RB