While we’re catching a high-risk population through preventive screenings, we are also identifying an entirely separate high-risk population: children of the patients that were just screened and found to have high risk polyps such as greater than 1 cm or with certain advanced characteristics.

Little things truly matter. This is especially true in our fight to prevent colon cancer. Colon cancer almost always starts as tiny mushroom-looking, pre-cancerous growths called “polyps”.  Over a five- to 10-year period, these little 1mm-10mm nothings may evolve into something…cancer. Fortunately, these can be easily removed during a colonoscopy.