Uterine Fibroids

Get Email Updates

Uterine Fibroids Guide

Rosa Cabrera RN
Empowered
Rosa Cabrera RN Guide

Have a question? We're here to help. Ask the Community.

ASK

Free Newsletter

Receive the latest and greatest in women's health and wellness from EmpowHER!

Fibroids, Are They Preventable? - Dr. McLucas (VIDEO)

By Dr. Bruce McLucas February 25, 2009 - 10:32am
 
Rate This

Dr. McLucas explains if uterine fibroids are preventable.

More Videos from Dr. Bruce McLucas 33 videos in this series

Dr. McLucas:

There’s an old joke about an internist who found a cure for fibroids, and on his way to the patent office, he was murdered by a bunch of gynecologists because it’s a very common way that we perform surgeries for women. Behind the joke is a wonderful idea that if there were a vaccine that we could give a woman, that would prevent 40% of the disease that they would have. That would be wonderful.

We just don’t know right now how to identify that woman who is going to have fibroids, so there’s nothing, there’s no diet that women can take. I have had patients come in who tried to avoid dairy products, and it just hasn’t worked. There is just no way you can prevent fibroids from growing, any more than you can prevent your cholesterol level from reaching what it probably would by your own heredity.

For more information on Uterine Fibroid Embolization or Dr. McLucas visit www.fibroids.com or call 866-362-6463.

 
Rate This

Around the Web

Improved

620 Health

Changed

294 Lives

Saved

211 Lives
1 lives impacted in the last 24 hrs Learn More

Take our Featured Poll

What did you do for the Memorial Day weekend? :
View Results