Cancerous colon polyp

Yesterday I was told that a polyp I had removed was cancerous. I am to have a MRI scan before the team meet to decide on surgery or surveilance. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I understand that only 5 to 10% of colon polyps are cancerous so I wondered what the percentage of treatment is re surgery or surveilance ?I don't want surgery but I don't really understand how the alternative works.

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  • Hi there, sorry to jump in on your thread late but i've just joined and your thread related to me so much. I had same last September, polyps removed for biopsy from a colonoscopy, officially diagnosed in October with stage 3 colo-rectal cancer, at 37yrs old, not happening.

    I have been given treatment then surgery route as MDT decided MRI scan showed it had spread to lymph nodes. Surveillance will be more scans to make sure it's not growing or to double check it's aggression because that will give MDT idea on what treatment plan you will be presented with, if any. That decision will be made when biopsy & scan results come back and give a clearer picture into what's going on.

    Hope it helps.

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  • Hi there, sorry to jump in on your thread late but i've just joined and your thread related to me so much. I had same last September, polyps removed for biopsy from a colonoscopy, officially diagnosed in October with stage 3 colo-rectal cancer, at 37yrs old, not happening.

    I have been given treatment then surgery route as MDT decided MRI scan showed it had spread to lymph nodes. Surveillance will be more scans to make sure it's not growing or to double check it's aggression because that will give MDT idea on what treatment plan you will be presented with, if any. That decision will be made when biopsy & scan results come back and give a clearer picture into what's going on.

    Hope it helps.

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