Hello Sunnylala and welcome to our online community.

As you'll see on our website, biopsies are standard procedure as the endoscopist removes tissue samples (biopsies) if they see any growths (polyps). I hope this helps ease your mind but if you'd like to discuss this in more detail with one of our cancer nurses, you can contact them on 0808 800 4040, Monday - Friday between 9a.m - 5p.m.

Hopefully some of our members will share their experiences with you soon but in the meantime we're thinking of you and hope the biopsy results bring good news when they come through.

Kind regards,

Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

Hello Sunnylala and welcome to our online community.

As you'll see on our website, biopsies are standard procedure as the endoscopist removes tissue samples (biopsies) if they see any growths (polyps). I hope this helps ease your mind but if you'd like to discuss this in more detail with one of our cancer nurses, you can contact them on 0808 800 4040, Monday - Friday between 9a.m - 5p.m.

Hopefully some of our members will share their experiences with you soon but in the meantime we're thinking of you and hope the biopsy results bring good news when they come through.

Kind regards,

Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

Hi, I had a colonoscopy 3 days ago and 8 biopsies were taken. I wasn't expecting that so I'm a bit nervous as to why. 

Hi SheSings and welcome to the forum.

I'm sorry you weren't made aware that biopsies may be taken during your colonoscopy. As you can see in my previous reply this is standard procedure but if you're worried you're very welcome to talk things through with one of our nurses. They're available Monday - Friday between 9a.m - 5p.m on 0808 800 4040. They're very insightful and will do all they can to answer your questions and put your mind at ease.

We're thinking of you SheSings and will have our fingers crossed for a good outcome.

Kind regards,

Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

Thank you for the reassurance. My mind was racing.