Sessile polyps are considered precancerous. They’re typically removed during a colonoscopy or follow-up surgery. Pedunculated polyps are the second shape. They grow on a stalk up from the tissue.

It is possible that hyperplastic polyps, SSA/Ps and TSAs, are divergent pathways from inception. Figure 5. Typical appearance of a sessile serrated adenoma/polyp in the ascending colon.

Other than a statin, I am not taking any medications. I have been getting colonoscopies every five years as each time several benign polyps have been found. When I was 67, a couple of precancerous ...