Q. Please give your opinion regarding my wife's colon polyp.

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Before I answer your question, can you please kindly share some more information.

• Is this the only polyp detected? Does she have a family history of colon cancer?

• Did she have any bleeding or it was a screening colonoscopy?

• Is this her first colonoscopy? If no, then what were the findings before?

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• The serrated polyps, which are more than 10 mm have a tendency to turn into precancerous lesions. Therefore, we follow them very closely. It also depends upon the pathology results of the polyp.

Here are the guidelines for repeat colonoscopy:

1. Patients with serrated adenomas or polyps that are less than 10 mm and no dysplasia in pathology or biopsy should have a repeat colonoscopy at 5 year interval till they turn 75 years.
2. Patients with serrated adenomas or polyps of more than or equal to 10 mm and a serrated adenomas or polyps with dysplasia should undergo a repeat colonoscopy at three year interval till they turn 75 years. This is the recommendation for your wife.

• Here, dysplasia means a potential to turn into cancer forming cells. It does not mean cancer. Please do not take it wrong.

• Please forward me her pathology or biopsy reports if you have.

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