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Had a lower eus done today and trying to read the report and it says. one benign appearing 4 mm polyp in the rectum. how big is that? how does he kno
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Too small to be bad: 4 mm is 1/6 th of an inch- very small. Most doctors can tell if polyp looks benign- not cancerous or not. But final results will come back if he took it out and sent it to the lab. Also, such small polyps very rarely would be cancerous.
Answered 4/4/2019
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