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A member asked:
Is there a link between colon and uterine polyps and lung cancer? does tendency for polyps at early age raise likelihood of cancer, specific, general?
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Some colon polyps...: ...Can develop into colon cancer and if a patient has multiple polyps, they could carry an inherited trait (fap, attenuated fap, myh, and others) which can increase the risk for other cancers. To my knowledge, though, lung cancer is not one of those. Smoking is your main risk factor. If you do, pleeease quit.
Answered 11/10/2013
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