DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 78-year-old male who recently had a colonoscopy and had several polyps removed, but there was also a “flat polyp” that couldn’t be removed.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 78-year-old male who recently had a colonoscopy and had several polyps removed, but there was also a “flat polyp” that couldn’t be removed.

Most colorectal cancer starts from a polyp, a small clump of cells that forms on the colon’s lining. Polyps are often harmless, but over time, some grow and develop into cancer.

Dr. Roach: I am a 78-year-old male who recently had a colonoscopy and had several polyps removed, but there was also a “flat polyp” that couldn’t be removed. My doctor ...

Large sessile colonic polyps can be managed safely and effectively by endoscopic mucosal resection, but previous attempts increase the risk of failure, according to a report in Gastroenterology. In a ...

• Researchers randomly assigned 203 patients with at least one flat or sessile polyp of 5mm to 9mm in size to undergo either hot or cold snare polypectomy. • Lesions were sessile in 71 percent of ...

For example, the GI Genius model, as a second observer, has demonstrated a 30% relative increase in adenoma detection rate compared with colonoscopy alone for both flat (42% increase) and ...

Gastroenterology > Colon Cancer Trainees May Miss More Sessile Serrated Polyps on Colonoscopy — But resident or fellow involvement didn't have a negative impact on other key quality indicators ...

At 10 years, the cumulative colorectal cancer incidence was 1.6% among patients with hyperplastic polyps, 2.5% among those with sessile serrated polyps, 2.7% for tubular adenomas, 5.1% for ...