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August 26, 2004

Infertility and Cancer Risk, Hysterectomy Rates Unchanged

"New evidence suggests that women who have a history of infertility may be at an increased risk for several types of female cancers."

"Wall Street Journal reports that women are uninformed about their treatment options for uterine fibroids, which still accounts for 200,000 hysterectomies annually, in spite of a widely available non-surgical treatment -- uterine fibroid embolization."