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Colon/Bowel Polyps

Panda78 · 2013-07-16 09:13:03

Does anyone have experience of having polyps removed? My Dad had a colonoscopy last week, as his bowel cancer DIY screening test for over 60s showed blood in his sample. He had 2 polyps, one quite large, removed and we're now awaiting the results. His side of the family have a history of bowel cancer, so naturally we are…

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26 March 2014 at 12:49AM

fluffnutter wrote: »

4. Different hospitals have massively varying rates for their pathology services. It's neither here nor there that you're expecting the results in ten days, whereas you've read three weeks is more usual. You can't draw useful comparisons.

Three weeks? F.ck me, I had to wait 6 months! They found the growth on 10.10.12 and I got the test result 20.4.13.

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