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Mom is smoker ( around 2 fags a day). 52 yrs. is a colonoscopy screening required for all smokers above 50 even without symptoms?

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Dr. Herman Hammerstead answered

Specializes in Trauma Surgery

Not the smoking: It's the age. All people, non-smokers and smokers, should have colonoscopy initially at age 50 and then every 5 years. Pre-cancerous polyps don't have symptoms. I assume fags=cigarettes

Answered 7/22/2020

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