When you hear about gallbladder polyps, many people associate it with gallbladder inflammation, gallbladder stones, or even gallbladder cancer. In fact, this disease has almost nothing to do with cholecystitis or gallbladder stones. No matter how the condition of gallbladder polyps changes, it will not develop into cholecystitis or gallbladder stones. The reason why gallbladder polyps remind people of cholecystitis and gallbladder stones is that usually, there are no obvious symptoms of the disease. Even if the patient has had gallbladder polyps for a long time, they may not feel them at all. Without a test, they will not even notice that they have a polyp in their gallbladder. Most patients come to the hospital only when they have abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms in combination with cholecystitis and gallbladder stones. Therefore, it is not surprising that many people think that gallbladder polyps and cholecystitis and gallbladder stones are “like family”. Since gallbladder polyps are asymptomatic, this disease does not need to be treated by a doctor if it is not combined with cholecystitis or gallbladder stones, or if the polyps are less than 1 cm in diameter. However, after finding out they have gallbladder polyps, it is better for patients to go to the hospital again within three months or six months for related examination to see if the polyps have the possibility of cancer. Dr. Qin Xinglei reminded that once the gallbladder polyp becomes cancerous, the disease may take the patient’s life in 1-2 years. What is even more frightening is that even in the case of cancer, the patient may still be fine and “feel good about himself”. Seeing this, maybe patients with gallbladder polyps can’t help but get chills and chills in their backs, which is actually not necessary at all. Dr. Qin Xinglei told reporters that gallbladder polyps are divided into three types: inflammatory polyps, cholesterol polyps and adenomatous polyps, the first two of which have a very low chance of becoming cancerous, while patients need to be alert to adenomatous polyps. Research has found that the vast majority of gallbladder cancers are caused by adenomatous polyps. Since the gallbladder is located below the liver, it is not like anal polyps or uterine polyps, which can be clearly identified by endoscopy, ultrasound and other examinations to identify the type of polyps and the possibility of malignant transformation. Then how can these three types be distinguished after the polyps are checked? ”Compared with inflammatory polyps and cholesterol polyps, one of the most obvious characteristics of adenomatous polyps is that the ‘growth rate’ is particularly fast.” Dr. Qin Xinglei said, inflammatory polyps, cholesterol polyps at first how big, after a period of time, not only there is no significant change, and may even disappear; adenomatous polyps in as short as three months, as long as six months, the diameter can change from 0.6 cm to 1.2 cm. Therefore, once the examination reveals such a problem, the patient must be operated immediately to avoid further deterioration of the condition. In addition, for some patients worried about the recurrence of the disease, Dr. Qin Xinglei said that the technology of minimally invasive surgery is now very mature, and problems like this rarely occur anymore.