If you have a few small polyps, doctor can remove them during your screening exam. Eventually, though, polyps may become too numerous to remove individually. To prevent cancer, we recommend surgery for familial adenomatous polyposis, usually by your late teens or early 20s. Surgery may not be required for attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis. Surgery doesn’t cure familial adenomatous polyposis. Polyps can continue to form in the remaining or reconstructed parts of your colon, stomach and small intestine. But with careful screening, these polyps usually can be found and removed during colonoscopy before becoming cancerous. Most colorectal surgery is done using minimally invasive (laparoscopic) techniques. Laparoscopic surgery is performed through several small incisions that require just a stitch or two to close. Minimally invasive surgery usually shortens your hospital stay and speeds your recovery. The surgeries to treat familial adenomatous polyposis and its complications: You are screened regularly and treated for complications of familial adenomatous polyposis that can develop after colorectal surgery.TREATMENT
MINIMALLY INVASIVE COLORECTAL SURGERY
FOLLOW-UP TREATMENT