Polyp Removal

A polyp is a precancerous growth. They can vary in size from a couple millimeters to several centimeters.

Most colon cancers start from polyps, so we want to do the colonoscopy and remove those polyps before they have a chance to develop into a colon cancer.

If we find a polyp, that does not mean that you will get a colon cancer. It does mean that you get more frequent colonoscopies so that we can remove those polyps before they become a cancer in the case that you were to make more polyps.

It would depend on the pathology and size of the polyp we initially found. Sometimes we find polyps that have not yet become a cancer but are too big to remove with the colonoscope, which would mean we would need to do a colon resection. Otherwise, we would need to repeat the colonoscopy anywhere from six months to five years.