If I Am 75 & In Very Good Health,& Had

Posted on Mon, 9 Sep 2019

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Question : If I am 75 & in very good health,& had two polyps ,.7cm & .8cm (gastric fundic biopsy & duodenal biopsy) at age 70 (in colonoscopy pathology report) but no malignacys, do I still need to have another colonoscopy?

Answered by Dr. Indranil Ghosh (7 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Another endoscopy after 1 yr of the first is usually recommended

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for your query.

There's a discrepancy in your query. You have mentioned about gastric and duodenal polyp and asked about further colonoscopy. But upper GI endoscopy and not colonoscopy is done for looking at stomach and duodenum. So my answer will address on whether you will need another upper GI endoscopy.

As your endoscopy earlier had revealed two small polyps and biopsy done was benign, no polypectomy or polyp removal was done. So in this scenario, another endoscopy after 1 yr is recommended just to be sure that those have not grown and nothing new has come up. It appears that already 5 yrs have passed. So I would recommend another endoscopy at this time.

Hope this helps.
Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Indranil Ghosh (11 hours later)

i don't have info of my last colonoscopy. Will get if from medical records tomorrow. Can I follow up with question later in the day tomorrow? or pay an extra $10 for more questions? Eileen Cohen

Answered by Dr. Indranil Ghosh (22 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Yes you can post follow up query later

Detailed Answer:
Please let us know the colonoscopy report

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar