In general terms, colorectal polyps that are 10 mm (1 cm) or bigger in diameter are considered to have a higher risk of ...

Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and ...

This concern about malignancy has now been extended to sessile serrated polyps which, the authors warn, are "less understood than adenomas and are more risky to remove." Yet current consensus ...

Finally, there are sessile serrated polyps (SSP) and traditional serrated adenomas (TSA) which are treated like adenomas and have a higher risk of becoming cancer, the American Cancer Society said.