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 ...

Polyps may be sessile or pedunculated. The majority are adenomatous and should properly be referred to as adenomas. Our pathologists report all benign tumors of this type as mucosal polyps without ...

Serrated colorectal polyps are a genotypically and molecularly diverse group of lesions sharing the common phenotype of glandular serration of the crypt lumen. A small subset of serrated polyps ...

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.

Further, while traditional views of classifying protruding and sessile lesions include ... KRAS mutation Any polyp 4 CIMP negative, MSS Adenoma-carcinoma sequence 5 (Lynch syndrome) CIMP negative ...