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Streisand in the Pink

Barbra Streisand's colon is all clear.

The Oscar winner, who returns to the big screen next week for the first time in eight years with the sequel Meet the Fockers, was given a clean bill of health after minor surgery to remove a polyp from her colon.

"During a routine colonoscopy earlier this year, Barbra Streisand's doctor discovered a benign polyp," reads a statement from publicist Dick Guttman. "The removal of the single polyp was done earlier this month, and its benign nature was reaffirmed."

Polyps can often be a precursor to colorectal cancer, which afflicts some 150,000 Americans each year, but polyps are treatable if caught early.

Guttman says doctors advised the 62-year-old singer-actress-diva that she was not facing an "emergency situation," and Streisand opted to delay the procedure until she had completed a "professional obligation"--presumably wrapping her role as Roz Focker, the mother of hapless male nurse Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller) in the follow-up to the hit 2000 comedy Meet the Parents.

"[The operation] did not delay her scheduled promotional activities for Meet the Fockers," Guttman says.

Guttman's statement came after rumors of a Streisand health scare first surfaced in the National Enquirer, which claimed Streisand was worried the growth was malignant.

Meet the Fockers hits theaters Dec. 22.

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