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In a population of people 50 or
60 years old, about 30% are harboring these adenomatous polyps. Now the issue is that only
a small percentage of them will evolve into cancer. So fundamentally, when we approach
screening from a polyp perspective, we start detecting all these polyps, removing them and
following people for development of recurrent polyps. This requires us to spend a lot of
time, energy and money doing things that probably, in many cases, would never really
evolve into a problem. But as for right now, all we know is to deal with adenomas and to
take them out. |