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The definitive gold standard test for diagnosing celiac disease (gluten intolerance) is a biopsy of the intestine.
https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/screening-and-diagnosis/diagnosis/

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Thank you. That’s what I thought. I asked my gastroenterologist if we should test for celiac since I’m having a colonoscopy in January but she said she doesn’t go into the small intestine but she ordered two blood tests instead. I read and told my doctor that I read that if a person has been avoiding gluten then the test won’t be accurate. She ignored my comment and I did the blood test anyway.

I have slowly enlarging small BD-IPMN with double ducts dilated and enlarging. Now I have EPI and for the last 3 years pain/discomfort in upper right quadrant and my liver enzymes are fluctuating between high and normal. I also had Uterine sarcoma cancer stage IV in 2006. Knowing all the above is making me feel that I could possibly have cancer but I wanted to check whatever other possibilities could be causing some of these things. I guess celiac probably isn’t very likely in my case.