What is the treatment for a bowel polyp?
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If a polyp is found during a colonoscopy (or sigmoidoscopy) it can often be easily removed as described above.
- Most polyps do not contain cancer cells. However, removing the polyp prevents the risk that it may become cancerous sometime in the future.
- Some polyps contain cancer cells. If these cells are confined to within the polyp then the removal of the polyp is curative. If the cells look as if they had begun to spread to the wall of the colon or rectum then an operation may be needed to remove that section of colon or rectum.
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