Bowel screen

Hi Jessehants and welcome to the board. The waiting for scans and next stages of treatment is very stressful especially when you were expecting them to remove the polyp during the ESD. Unfortunately until the polyp is removed and sent off for testing then you can not be 100% sure what you’re facing. The MRI will presumably be to give the surgeon a better picture of the overall situation.

Whether it is cancerous or not the polyp needs removing. Bowel cancer (if it does turn out to be that) is notoriously slow growing but very treatable especially if caught early. Stay away from google and try to distract yourself - once you have the scan results and a plan in place then things will honestly feel a bit better.

We’re all at different stages of treatment or recovery on here so please feel free to post if you’ve any concerns or questions and we’ll be happy to help you through this

Take care

Karen x

Thank you so much for your reply. I agree, waiting is agonising but I really do want whatever this is removed and am open to whatever treatment thereafter is deemed necessary. Many thanks for your support.

Hi Jessehants

I completely hear you on the medical knowledge front ! It’s hard to park all that knowledge at times ! However it did come in handy too !

Hope your doing ok. 
take care ,

Court