chris purnell. explain to me what this means. so, john, this is the power of prevention. the preventive services task force, beginning age 45, you should undergo screening. colonoscopy is the gold standard for screening. he had a colonoscopy and there was a finding. that finding was a tubular adeno ma. those older than 50 years are more likely to have polyps. it was benign. because there is a potential for that to develop into something that is cancerous, the polyp was removed what does pre-cancerous means. i m not sure people fully understand it. it just means there s a growth. there is a growth in the colon. and whether that is something that is flat or that growth is something that s on a stalk, the size of the growth, the most
polyp removed. the specimen has been identified as a tubular add nome yeah. it is a benign slow growing pre-cancerous leash on and no further action is required at that time. what does it mean? is it of any concern? overall i think it is reassuring news. as we get older, you know, there are different kinds of wear and tear changes that occur in the body and the colon is a tube in the gut and people can get these different growths moving inward. that s why people start to have screening colonoscopy, putting a camera in and looking inside that tube to see what s going on, if there are any growths in there. so as you get older you get polyps which are growths and this is a particular description of a growth. the shame shape of it.
precancerous, it is so scary. it is not uncommon for these polyps to be found after age 50. so the fact that he had one of these polyps and it was removed is a good thing. it shows the system is working. he had a colonoscopy, they found this 3 millimeter polyp, it was precancerous and they got rid of it. it s very effective to get rid of it at such an early stage. this is why the u.s. centers for disease control says get cancer screening starting at age 45. it works, and so something that sounds super scary like a precancerous polyp really isn t so scary. christine? all right, thank you so much for that. reminder to everyone out there, put off any of your screenings during the covid shutdowns, get up to date on your health care, please. thanks, elizabeth cohen this morning. all right. justice can come slowly, but how about this. a pennsylvania man sentenced to one day in prison for stealing a rare rifle 50 years ago. 78-year-old thomas gavin admits he took the rifle from a museum i
now, let s have a public, private partnership to get a rapid test in every house in america. that s how we know who is contagious and who is going to need these antiviral treatments. mike: to the president s quizzical, we are told he had a potential precancerous polyp removed during a colonoscopy, 3-millimeter polyp identified as a tubular adenoma, similar to one he had removed in 2008, how much of a concern is that? i m not concerned about this but it s a wake-up call for everybody over the age of 45 in america to be considered for a colonoscopy. you know, 30-50% of americans over 50 have these polyps, twice that if you re over 70, and he s had one before. mike, 4-5% of these tubular adenoma s, 4-5%, turn cancers, but it means he has to have a follow-up colonoscopy. his doctor is saying ten years, our doctors would say more like five years, three to five years, just to be sure, you know?
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