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Estimates are that 20 percent to 40 percent
of American women of childbearing years will develop benign
uterine fibroids — a noncancerous growth of tissue
in or near the uterus that can cause pain, bleeding or pressure
on normal pelvic structures. The exact causes for fibroid
development are unclear, but researchers have linked them
to both a genetic predisposition and a subsequent development
of susceptibility to hormone stimulation.
Women may have a genetic predisposition
to fibroid development and then subsequently develop factors
that allow fibroids to grow under the influence of a number
of hormones. About one third of the 600,000 hysterectomies
performed annually in the United States are attributed to
these fibroids. Symptoms of uterine fibroids include pelvic
pain and/or pressure, heavy prolonged menstrual periods and
pressure on the bladder and/or bowels.
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Uterine Fibroid Embolization
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