Risk of cancer in small and diminutive colorectal polyps.

The prevalence of cancer in small and diminutive polyps is relevant to "resect and discard" and CT colonography reporting recommendations. We evaluated a prospectively collected colonoscopy polyp database to identify polyps <10mm and those with cancer or advanced histology (high-grade dysplasia or villous elements). Of 32,790 colonoscopies, 15,558 colonoscopies detected 42,630 polyps <10mm in size. A total of 4790 lesions were excluded as they were not conventional adenomas or serrated class lesions. There were 23,524 conventional adenomas <10mm of which 22,952 were tubular adenomas. There were 14,316 serrated class lesions of which 13,589 were hyperplastic polyps and the remainder were sessile serrated polyps. Of all conventional adenomas, 96 had high-grade dysplasia including 0.3% of adenomas ≤5mm in size and 0.8% of adenomas 6-9mm in size. Of all conventional adenomas, 2.1% of those ≤5mm in size and 5.6% of those 6-9mm in size were advanced. Among 36,107 polyps ≤5mm in size and 6523 polyps 6-9mm in size, there were no cancers. These results support the safety of resect and discard as well as current CT colonography reporting recommendations for small and diminutive polyps.

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