DIAGNOSIS
In order to see whether you have bowel polyps or not, your doctor will look at your symptoms and ask for your medical history. Afterwards, he/she may conduct the following tests in order to diagnose your condition properly:
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Bowel cancer screening procedure.
- Colonoscopy
- CT colonography
TREATMENT
Polyps can be treated in various ways, the most common of which is to snare the polyp during a colonoscopy. Snaring is a painless procedure similar to removing a polyp with cheese wire.
Both procedures entail the insertion of a flexible piece of technology known as a colonoscope through your bottom and up into the bowel. Electric current is applied to the colonoscope’s polyp to cauterize (burn-off) or snare it.
Bowel polyps may involve surgical resection of a part of the bowel in infrequent circumstances. It is usually reserved for polyps with some cell changes or is quite large.
After the polyps have been eliminated, they will be sent to laboratory experts, who will notify your consultant if:
- The polyp has been eliminated;
- There is a chance that it will reappear again; and
- There is any evidence of a cancerous transition in the polyp.