Guest guest Posted May 17, 2002 Report Share Posted May 17, 2002 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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