No Need to Withhold Aspirin Before Polypectomy

There’s no need to withhold aspirin or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) before colonoscopy or polypectomy, say researchers who conducted a large retrospective study at VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York at Syracuse. Of 1,174 patients, 502 (43%) were on aspirin therapy, NSAIDs, or both (Group A). Those patients did not differ statistically from patients without aspirin or NSAIDs (Group B) in number or location of polyps, adenoma detection rate, or polypectomy technique.