{"id":52447,"date":"2025-04-25T22:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/mayo-health-library\/mayo-clinic-minute-what-you-need-to-know-about-polyps-in-your-colon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:05:34","slug":"mayo-clinic-minute-what-you-need-to-know-about-polyps-in-your-colon","status":"publish","type":"mayo","link":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/zh\/mayo-health-library\/mayo-clinic-minute-what-you-need-to-know-about-polyps-in-your-colon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Clinic Minute: What you need to know about polyps in your colon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container mx-auto   wordpress-block wordpress- core-\">\n<p>&#8220;Generally speaking, we encourage all adults over the age of 50 &ndash; and even older adults who have at least 10 years of very high-quality life expectancy &ndash; to participate in screening,&#8221; Dr. Kisiel says.<\/p>\n<p>He says you might be surprised how often colonoscopies uncover polyps lurking in your colon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Precancerous polyps are extremely common,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We expect to find them in more than a quarter of the colonoscopies that we do at a minimum. 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