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A 46-year-old woman presents with persistent diarrhoea, weight loss and crampy abdominal pain. Colonoscopy shows continuous inflammation from the rectum to the sigmoid colon with ulceration and friability; biopsies confirm ulcerative colitis. According to the Toronto consensus for non-hospitalised ulcerative colitis, which treatment is recommended for mild-to-moderate left-sided disease?

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