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Fibroids are very common. It is estimated that 20-50 percent of all women have these benign uterine growths. Fibroids are most likely to affect women in their 30s and 40s. For reasons we don’t yet understand, fibroids occur more frequently in African-American women. Many women with fibroids have other family members with fibroids too.
