IN a review of records of patients studied at the Lahey Clinic twenty or more years ago, it is not unusual to see a diagnosis noted "polyp of rectum or colon; patient to have periodic checkups." ...
One is called familial adenomatous polyposis where the patient has multiple polyps in the colon and they carry that trait down to their children, and when that happens, it is, you have a very high ...
If they find a polyp, I would recommend that you have another colonoscopy within a year, because what happens is that polyps go on to turn into malignancies, and sometimes when you get your ...