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My mom is now under the care of my Doc and is having a colonoscopy today to remove the remaining polyps. Doc said anyone with polyps should have colonscopy every 2 years. I also was told that with Crohns, if you have had disease for 8 years or more they want more frequent colonoscopies I assume every other year.
And you need a colonoscopy only once every 10 years, starting at the age of 50, as long as the screen is normal. Other tests, like the flexible sigmoidoscopy, video capsule endoscopy and CT colonoscopy, only look at part of the colon and need to be done every five years in order to ensure adequate screening.