Maarten te Groen

1 Introduction Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at increased risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) compared to the general population [1, 2]. Chronic inflammation is considered the most important driver of carcinogenesis in IBD. Endoscopic surveillance is recommended to detect and remove colorectal neoplasia (CRN) and reduce CRC-related morbidity and mortality [3].

MtG and AMW are joint first authors. BO and FH are joint senior authors. X @mtegroen Collaborators Dutch Initiative on Crohn and Colitis. Contributors MG and AMW: conceptualisation, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing – original draft, visualisation, project administration. NB: methodology, formal analysis. DJ, WAD, MD, HHF, FDMS, MMCH, PWJM and PWV: investigation, writing – review and editing. AEM, KHNB and CPP: investigation, resources, writing – review and editing.

Article Info Publication History Accepted: October 20, 2020 Received: October 13, 2020 Publication stage In Press Journal Pre-Proof Footnotes Grant support: this work is not supported by any grant. Disclosures: The authors state no conflict of interest. CRediT authors’ contributions: Maarten te Groen, MD: data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, project administration, visualization, writing – original draft.