When is my next colonoscopy due?

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2030, five years after the one on May 20, 2025 that found a polyp. The ten-year interval from the 2015 one no longer applies. Ray's next is 2029.

2030

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Whose: Peg Ostrander (patient)

patient	me
date	2025-05-20
comments	Colonoscopy, Dr. Iverson. One 6 mm polyp taken from the ascending colon; the pathology says tubular adenoma. Repeat in five years this time, 2030, not ten.

Whose: Peg Ostrander (patient)

patient	me
date	2015-05-14
comments	Colonoscopy, Dr. Iverson. Normal, no polyps. Repeat in ten years.