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by voxl 19 days ago
A colonoscopy is more than screening, if they see a polyp they remove it. Left alone that polyp will very likely eventually become cancer. Routine colonoscopies for someone with IBD is multi purpose, you screen for active disease, fistula, strictures, cancer, while simulatenously treating active disease (polyp removal)

Similar things happen in any general surgery, for example you can get your tubes removed and send up with all your endometriosis that you weren't able to diagnosis removed as well
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mhb 19 days ago
> Left alone that polyp will very likely eventually become cancer

I don't think so. You have a reference?

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Findecanor 19 days ago
You can't tell whether a polyp is cancerous or not before you have removed it, sent it to the lab and got the results back.

Therefore, all polyps should be removed. (Sending them all to the lab might be superfluous though)

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mhb 19 days ago
Yes. That is the recommendation because "some" polyps are or may become cancerous. Not because all do. Unless you are saying that they do?
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voxl 19 days ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9924026/

Though I regurgitate this information based off conversations with gastroenterologists not one off studies.

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mhb 19 days ago
You claimed that "polyp will very likely eventually become cancer". I don't think this is true, in general, for polyps even though some might become cancerous. The paper you provided is pretty dense, but it didn't see to me as though it is saying that polyps generally become cancerous.
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voxl 19 days ago
It's an internet forum, I didn't claim anything. And your doctor isn't going to first biopsy just a little bit of a polyp to determine if it's the "bad" kind, he's going to remove all of it.

It's annoying pedantry, a distinction without a difference.

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mhb 19 days ago
Oh FFS. The difference between polyps very likely becoming cancer and some polyps maybe becoming cancer is not pedantry. And it probably wouldn't be as annoying to you if you just said that you didn't know instead of attempting to dig deeper by providing a source that you either didn't read or didn't understand.
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