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During the procedure, the physician passes a long tube through the colon and manually identifies and removes polyps that could be cancerous or precancerous.
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Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
History of polyps: Most people have a repeat colonoscopy three years after a polyp was found, but frequency depends on the type, size, and number of polyps.
—Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 12 Dec. 2024
Polyps also usually don't show symptoms — which is why regular screening tests to find and remove polyps helps to prevent illness.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Doctors can remove polyps, seal wounds, inject medications, remove a blockage, place a stent or even use laser therapy all while inside the large intestine.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
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Clear cell renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults, making up about 80 percent of all renal cell carcinoma cases, according to the National Cancer Institute.—
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Instead, she was referred to a hospital, where a biopsy diagnosed her with squamous cell carcinoma.—
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At this age, malignancy was always on the list of possibilities for almost any new symptom.—
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Liquid biopsies must detect cancer early, differentiate between malignancies and avoid the pitfalls of false positives and negatives.—
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Teddi Mellencamp has a positive health update after being diagnosed with multiple tumors in her brain, heart, and lungs that were metastases of melanoma.—
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These include melanoma and a rare type called Merkel cell carcinoma.—
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Peters was diagnosed with non Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1995, battling that form of cancer, as well as later being twice diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia in 2005 and 2015.—
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What may be at stake are hundreds of thousands of cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which the American Cancer Society reports is one of the most common cancers in the United States.—
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At this time, the cancer is termed castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).—
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Late Mom 'Happy Heavenly Birthday' 9 Months After Her Death from Cancer In February 2024, Dever announced in an Instagram post that her mother, Kathy, died after a 14-year battle with metastatic breast cancer.—
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Then, during the delivery, the medical team discovered a cyst inside her uterus.—
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This isn’t the first time Hailey’s dealt with a cyst.—
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“Polyp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyp. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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