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po luhp

  • n  a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
  • n  one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth
    in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase

  • Other studies have concluded that men and women who have already had one precancerous polyp surgically removed from their intestinal tract develop fewer subsequent polyps if they .
  • People with AFAP can begin develop colon polyps by their late teens (about 50% develop polyps in teenhood; others, later in life), and people with particularly severe cases are .
  • Until last weekend, quite a few Americans had probably never heard of polyps.
News & Articles

  • Assessing performance of colonoscopy procedures improves quality
    A new study reports that the use of a quarterly report card is associated with improved colonoscopy quality indicators. Endoscopists at the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis, Ind., who participated in the study showed an overall adjusted adenoma (precancerous polyp) detection rate increase from 44.7 percent to 53.9 percent, and a cecal intubation rate increase from 95.6 ...
    June 21, 2013 - EurekAlert!
  • Our Readers' Views: Health care is broken
    To the Editor: I had paid $350 per month for a $10,000 disaster care insurance, with 20 percent deductible. My agent told me that being 50 or older, with insurance, my coverage would pay for a colonoscopy as part of the Obamacare health initiative. In the event, a polyp was found, I would have to pay the oncologist in Sierra Vista a fee to diagnose the malignancy or lack thereof. That would be ...
    June 18, 2013 - The Sierra Vista Herald
  • New alternative to surgery lets doctors remove suspicious polyps, keep colon intact
    ( University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences ) A UCLA team of surgeons and gastroenterologists has been performing a new, minimally invasive procedure to remove large and hard-to-reach polyps while keeping the colon intact. The procedure, which combines two minimally invasive techniques, has currently been performed at only a handful of medical centers in the United States.
    June 17, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Quotes

  • Ron Estay in Regina Leader-Post
    When we got back from the States, I had a bleeding polyp,said Estay. "So I was in there for four days, I came out on a Wednesday and went back in on a Monday with a gall bladder infection; they took the gall bladder out. On April 2 I had...
  • Ronald Reagan in Washington Post
    As Reagan described his medical condition, the surgeons had removed "a self-contained polyp" that "had begun to develop a few cancer cells."

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