Many People with Crohn’s Disease Need Multiple Surgeries. Experts are Working to Change That.

Although the treatment and management of Crohn’s disease — a type of inflammatory bowel disease — has improved over time, many people with this illness still face a risk of the disease coming back even after getting surgery to remove it. And up to 50% of the time, these individuals will have to get a second surgery to manage the disease.
Hoping to change this, experts like Benjamin Click, MD, MS, a clinician and researcher in the University of Colorado Department of Medicine, are working to advance research to improve how doctors monitor and care for these patients.
“Crohn’s disease is one of the few opportunities, at least in the diseases I routinely deal with, where we can see the disease form and evolve in front of our eyes,” said Click, an assistant professor in the CU Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, during a recent Medicine Grand Rounds presentation.
“Oftentimes, we make the diagnosis of a disease when it’s already existing, and we implement…