“Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and be screened regularly for them,” says Fola May, MD, a ...

Typical appearance of a sessile serrated adenoma/polyp in the ascending colon. Arrows indicate the ... USA Serrated polyps are common and have malignant potential. Approximately 30% of colorectal ...

My family has no history of colon disease. At age 50 ... And I finally got it done, and I found a pre-cancerous polyp,” he said on the Today show on Wednesday. “I was completely stunned.” ...

He also thinks the study should have used numbers of pre-cancerous polyps to measure ... should get screened every year after age 50 for colon polyps, which can be removed before they develop ...