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If you have a perfectly clean outcome from a colonoscopy, when do you need to have another, in 5 years, or 10?
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Colonoscopy.: If no family history and no previous history of adenomatous polyps, then 10 yrs.
Answered 10/18/2012
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Depends: If you have a significant famoly history or history of previous polyps, then it would be 5 years.
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