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SiCanto@... wrote:

>The way I understand it, it is difficult to distinguish between fibroids and

>uterine smooth muscle cancerous tumors. About 1% of discovered uterine

>growths turn out to be cancerous. Therefore, the assumption is made that the

>growth is fibroid unless it is growing rapidly. (Although, my doctor has

>also told me that both fibroids and sarcomas can grow slowly or rapidly.)

>Anyone else have any comments?

>

What you've just outlined is the standard line of misinformation that

many gyns use to get women to agree to hysterectomy.

Any premenopausal woman has a .1% (as in one tenth of one percent)

chance of her fibroids actually being a sarcoma and menopausal women

with active tumor growth (who are NOT on HRT -- as HRT use in

postmenopausal women has been associated with continued fibroid growth)

have a 1% chance of the same -- generally, an overall lifetime risk of

about .25% or so, if I understand the stats correctly.

This has been confirmed in at least 2 major studies now -- one by Dr.

et al and the other done by a team of researchers in

Japan. ~1 in 1000 risk for premenopausal women. NOT 1 in 100.

In terms of " rapidly growing " -- Dr. 's paper pretty much zeroed

that concept out. As I generally like to say....

......a rapidly growing fibroid is.....

......a rapidly growing fibroid.

No evidence of growth rate tied to cancer vs. benign tumors. At all.

carla

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