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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.
Earlier this year, Texas researchers found that 24,000 Medicare patients, ages 75 to 79, who had received a normal colonoscopy result were still getting repeat tests within seven years, some in as few as three years, even though nearly every medical authority recommends the test be done only once every 10 years.