[QUOTE=islandboy;5054070]According to my GI Dr. polyps are SLOW growing and if you get checked often enough they can snip them out during the colonoscopy - no muss no fuss.

+1 on the slow growth. A friend of mine waited until he had strong symptoms of a problem (he's 55) and is now going through chemo and multiple surgeries (he's stage 4). His doc says the growth was probably 10 years old. In other words, if he had gotten scoped when he was 50 the prognosis would have been tremendously better since it wouldn't have spread at that time.