Polyps in the gallbladder may not cause any symptoms. Depending on the type of polyps, they can be benign, be a sign of inflammation, or potentially lead to cancer. Polyps are abnormal tissue growths.

"Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and be screened regularly for them," says Fola May, MD, a ...

Adenomatous polyps typically do not cause symptoms unless they progress to colon cancer. Even then, there may be no sign of a problem until the malignancy is advanced. This is why colon cancer ...

Nasal steroid sprays. Biologics. Surgery. These are some of the treatments your doctor may have recommended to manage your nasal polyps. The first-line treatment is medication management ...

Cervical polyps are very common indeed and, as you say, they can interfere with taking a smear test. A polyp is no more than an overgrowth of one small area of the lining of the cervix.

Idaho ranks low in cancer screening, underscoring the need for early detection and healthy habits for effective treatment and ...

Nasal polyps are benign mucosal protrusions that can, in severe cases, block the nostrils entirely. Nasal polyps often develop in conjunction with a prolonged sinus infection, leading to chronic ...

Polyps are growths that form on the inside of the colon. Polyps are noncancerous, but cancer can begin with some types of polyps. If a person has a type of noncancerous polyp called an adenomatous ...

Abstract: The deficiencies of existing polyp detection methods remain: i) They primarily depend on the manually extracted features and require considerable amounts of preprocessing. ii) Most ...

The frequency of polyp diagnoses in close relatives was strongly associated with colorectal cancer risk. Polyp history in second-degree relatives was only influential with multiple polyp diagnoses.

Back to siphonophores we go. As it happens, the Portuguese man o’ war is far from unique, as there are around 175 species of ...