http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Healthology/HS_needless_hysterectomy021211.html
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" According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year some 600,000 American women bypass relatively fast and simple medical procedures and choose instead a life-altering and -- in many instances, some say -- unnecessary operation known as a hysterectomy.
" ...women are not being told the truth, and it's doctors who are deceiving them, particularly about what these options can accomplish"...
" Complicating matters further: Some doctors aren't being truthful about the consequences of a hysterectomy.
" The only time this operation should be considered is if the diagnosis is cancer, which accounts for about 15 percent of current hysterectomies.
" Various states have enacted legislation requiring doctors to inform patients of all their treatment options before asking them to consent to a hysterectomy.
" Earlier this year, the U.S. Senate introduced the "Uterine Fibroids Research and Education Act of 2002." The proposal would authorize some $10 million in funding to the National Institutes of Health for both research and public awareness campaigns about alternative treatments for fibroid tumors."
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