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• These growths occur in about 25% of all women and are the leading cause of hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) in the United States. Of every woman older than 35 years, 1 in 5 has a uterine fibroid. An estimated 600,000 hysterectomies (removal of the uterus) are performed in the US annually, and at least one-third are for fibroids. Medications and newer, less invasive surgery can control the growth of fibroids.
• Fibroids start in the muscle tissues of the uterus. They can grow into the uterine cavity, into the thickness of the uterine wall, or on the surface of the uterus into the abdominal cavity. Although these tumors are called fibroids, this term is misleading because they consist of muscle tissue, not fibrous tissue.
Fibroids Symptoms
When you do experience symptoms, the most common are these:
• Irregular vaginal bleeding or an increase in menstrual bleeding, known as menorrhagia, sometimes with blood clots
• Pressure on the bladder, which may cause you to urinate often and feel a sense of urgency to urinate and, rarely, the inability to urinate
• Pressure on the rectum, resulting in constipation
• Pelvic pressure, “feeling full” in the lower abdomen, lower abdominal pain
• Increase in size around your waist and change in abdominal contour (You may need to increase your clothing size but not because of a significant weight gain.)
• Infertility, which is defined as an inability to become pregnant after 1 year of attempting to get pregnant
• A pelvic mass discovered by your health care provider during a physical examination
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