I recently received a letter from a patient talking of a sad, but all too common situation that ends in tragedy. She told me that she attended a funeral of a 45 year old woman she knew, no history of colon cancer – the true epitome of physical and mental health. Unfortunately, she underwent a routine colonoscopy (though it may have not been as routine as she says) and found that she had stage 3 colon cancer.
The call comes in. “I had a colonoscopy, and the doctor perforated my colon. I needed emergency surgery to fix it. Now I have a colostomy bag, and I’ll need another surgery in a few months to reverse it. Do I have a case?”
What do you think?
A colon polyp is a growth on the wall of the colon. You could get one polyp or more than one at the time. These polyps present themselves as flat or they could be raised. They can vary in size from the size of a pin head to the size of a golf ball.
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