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Uterine fibroids are tumors that grow in or on your uterus, or womb. Fibroids aren’t cancerous and hardly ever turn into cancer. They're made of smooth muscle cells and other tissue that grows in or ...

Uterine fibroids, also called leiomyomas or myomas, are non-cancerous tumors made of muscle tissue that can grow within or on the uterus. These fibroids vary in size, shape, and location, sometimes ...

It's common for women to have uterine fibroids, which are smooth, usually benign muscle tumors of the uterus, says Dr. G. Thomas Ruiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical ...

UCLA Health reports that an estimated 70 to 80 percent of women will suffer from fibroids at one point in their lives. While fibroids appear in significant numbers among women of every ethnic ...

Uterine fibroids, or myomas, are common benign (noncancerous) tumors that affect around 75 percent of women at some point during their lives. Our specialists typically treat fibroids with non-surgical ...

Uterine fibroids affect up to 80 percent of people with a uterus (and are two to three times more likely to occur in Black women)—and uterine fibroids symptoms tend to be “loud and obnoxious,” says ...