stop colonoscopy age 75?? Summarize this email Modest, Geoffrey (HMFP - Medicine) Modest, Geoffrey (HMFP - Medicine) A recent article assessed people who had had adenomas on prior colonoscopy but then had their follow-up colonoscopy after age 75, finding that there was very small benefit for doing a follow-up colonoscopy: see colon ca stop at age 75 JAMA2026 or doi:10.1001/jama.2026.3414. Though there is a reasonable argument to the contrary!!! Details : -- 91,952 individuals underwent colonoscopy between January 1,2006, and December 31,2019 on or after age 65, with 25,538 individuals (28%) having had an adenoma resected, compared with 66,414 individuals (72%) who were without adenomas -- this study was done to estimate retrospectively the cumulative colorectal cancer (CRC) risks, non-CRC mortality, and all-cause mortality comparing these two groups -- the researchers accessed the VA oncology domain cancer registry data, the CRC deaths form the National Death Inde...