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  2. Hysterectomy - Wikipedia

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    Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery among women in the United States (the first is cesarean section). In the 1980s and 1990s, this statistic was the source of concern among some consumer rights groups and puzzlement among the medical community, [ 102 ] and brought about informed choice advocacy groups like Hysterectomy ...

  3. 'I want my womb removed but doctors say I'm too young' - AOL

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    A hysterectomy is a major operation with a long recovery time which is only considered following less invasive treatments. It is carried out to treat health problems affecting the female ...

  4. Vaginal cancer - Wikipedia

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    Vaginal cancer is an extraordinarily rare form of cancer that develops in the tissue of the vagina. [1] Primary vaginal cancer originates from the vaginal tissue – most frequently squamous cell carcinoma, but primary vaginal adenocarcinoma, sarcoma, and melanoma have also been reported [2] – while secondary vaginal cancer involves the metastasis of a cancer that originated in a different ...

  5. Vaginal cuff - Wikipedia

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    Though rare, estimates of the prevalence of vaginal cuff dehiscence after hysterectomy are estimated and reported to be between 0.14 and 4.1% per the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). [7] If the vaginal cuff is compromised, vaginal evisceration can occur with the small intestine protruding out through the vagina. [3]

  6. Olivia Munn Underwent Hysterectomy While Undergoing Breast ...

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    Olivia Munn recently shared that she had a hysterectomy, a surgery that removes your uterus, along with a salpingo-oophorectomy, or the surgical removal of both ovaries and fallopian tubes ...

  7. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    denoting something as being equal Greek ἴσος (ísos), equal isotonic-ist: one who specializes in Greek -ιστής (-istḗs), agent noun, one who practices pathologist-ite: the nature of, resembling Latin -ītēs, those belonging to, from Greek -ίτης (-ítēs) dendrite-itis: inflammation

  8. Mom runs marathons to 'take power back' from cancer during ...

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    Having baby #2 was the motivation for marathon #2. A year later, her second child, another daughter, was born. “It was like a new beginning all over again.

  9. Sterilization of Native American women - Wikipedia

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    When complications arose, additional medical treatment was required, but government funding only covered the procedure itself. Because most women could not afford follow-up medical care, in many cases they did not receive it, and some died as a result. [20] Marie Sanchez equated the mass sterilization of Native Americans to genocide. [25]