Courtesy of Elev8
An estimated three of every four women will have to address the issue of uterine fibroids during their lifetimes and 80 percent of black American women are likely to get them before the age of 50.
Fibroid tumors grow in the uterus, generally are not cancerous and can be as small as a pea or grow as large as a melon.
Fibroids are two to three times more common in African American women than other American women, tend to be larger, more numerous, more symptomatic, and can cause or contribute to pelvic pain, heavy bleeding, infertility, and miscarriages, and are the leading cause of hysterectomies for black women who have a threefold higher risk for hysterectomies compared with white women.
New technologies, however, can reduce the pain and difficulties in treating fibroids.
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