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Summary: When preparing for a colonoscopy, a cleanse of the bowels is necessary by drinking a laxative prescribed by the doctor. Be sure to follow all instructions for the most accurate results with helpful information from an oncology specialist and assistant professor of medicine in this free video on cancer.
Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardtis a leading expert on colonoscopy at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass.read more
"Again, a colonoscopy is done to help screen for colon cancer, and the particular goal is to make sure there aren't polyps, or certainly a cancer at the time. It's based on recommendations from your physician for screening purposes, or if there are particular symptoms that patients have like rectal bleeding that require them to get a colonoscopy. The way one prepares for it is first you get an appointment with a gastroneurologist. For the most part a gastroneurologist or a surgeon will do a colonoscopy. There are some primary care physicians that do colonoscopies as well. There's a preparation that's needed to cleanse your bowel. Depending on the age of the patient or other issues, if they've had issues with prior colonoscopies in terms of how well they were cleaned out, will determine exactly which preparation is used, and when they have to stop eating and turn to a liquid-only diet prior to the colonoscopy. The preparation is done the night before a colonoscopy, and the next day one doesn't eat or drink anything. They go to wherever they're having the endoscopy, and the endoscopy itself takes anywhere between about 20 minutes and one hour. The patients who are on aspirin or blood thinners need to stop those prior to a colonoscopy because the gastroneurologist or surgeon may take a biopsy if they see anything that they're concerned about and one doesn't want to have bleeding. So if you're on aspirin or a blood thinner, you need to make sure your gastroneurologist or surgeon knows that prior to the colonoscopy. At the time of the colonoscopy, they'll be able to look and see if they see anything abnormal, and be able to give you that report if they see anything abnormal at the time of the colonoscopy. If they do send any biopsies out, it usually takes anywhere between three and seven days to have those results back to be able to report out. Patients need to come with someone to a colonoscopy, because in addition to having to have a preparation the night before, at the time of the colonoscopy they'll give you some sedatives to help relax both yourself as well as your bowel to be able to do the colonoscopy adequately, and thus you can't drive home after it."
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