What questions should black women be asking their doctors about fibroid prevention?
Unfortunately, due to this genetic predisposition, there isn’t a whole lot that women can do currently on the prevention side other than eating well and keeping as low a body fat as possible. If a woman is not interested in hysterectomy to treat her fibroids, the question she needs to ask her doctor is: “Is there an Interventional Radiologist that you work with that I can talk to about UFE?” While the gynecologist can talk about the surgical treatment of fibroids, a patient would need to see an Interventional Radiologist to talk about the non-surgical treatment options for fibroids. What is the average age of a woman with fibroids? Women often discover that they have fibroids in their twenties or early thirties, but they typically don’t cause enough clinical symptoms to warrant treatment until they are in their late thirties or forties. However, once again African-American women tend to get fibroids earlier in life and since their fibroids also tend to be bigger, they often present ear
