Oddly, smoking cigarettes can also protect against uterine cancer, but the harms of smoking outweigh this benefit. Uterine sarcoma is much rarer, primarily affecting the uterus's muscles or ...

Morton was diagnosed with an aggressive stage 3 uterine cancer. She attacked it with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Her doctor, Novant gynecologist Dr. Matt McDonald, told her this cancer ...

A Japanese far-right politician has been controversial for making absurd remarks that "the womb of women over the age of 30 ...

Women, whether premenopausal or postmenopausal, could experience the following fibroid symptoms: A fibroid or a cluster of fibroids pushing against the uterine wall can directly cause many of ...

In a controversial address on Japan’s birth rate crisis, Naoki Hyakuta, leader of Japan's Conservative Party, proposed ...

Uterine fibroids are tumors made of muscle that can grow on your uterus. They rarely turn into cancer. Many women have uterine fibroids. You might not even know you have them, since they don’t ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of sildenafil on the uterine circulation and clitoral artery blood flow in postmenopausal women using color Doppler sonography.

Uterine fibroids are affected by factors including genetic causes, prolonged estrogen exposure, early menses, and obesity. While some studies link Vitamin D deficiency to increased fibroid risk ...

The T2-weighted sagittal MRI scan in Panel B shows a fibroid of type 2–5, with deviation of the uterine cavity and contact with the serosal surface. A T1-weighted sagittal MRI scan such as the ...

The cervix and uterus are connected. But cervical cancer and uterine cancer are different in their underlying causes, symptom presentation, and the location where cancer cells originate.

Hormonal IUDs contain progestin, which suppresses ovulation, thickens the mucus around the cervix, and thins the uterine lining, all of which make fertilization less likely. IUDs are among the ...