Unbearable Fruit: Black Women's Experiences with Uterine Fibroids
Uterine Fibroids, medically termed uterine leiomyoma, are benign tumors of smooth muscle cells that grow in the uterus. While they are the most common pelvic neoplasm in women and fewer than 1 percent of fibroids develop into cancer, uterine fibroids can cause infertility, adverse pregnancy outcomes...
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ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
2013
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/72 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=sociology_diss |