By Eric Hardee, MD, and William Fox, MD Chances are, you or someone you know has uterine fibroids. These benign tumors, which often appear during childbearing years, are so common that the National Institutes of Health estimates as many as 80 percent of women will develop them by age 50. African-American women are more likely to develop fibroids at a younger age and have larger fibroids that cause more severe symptoms. Although some women may […]
