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During a procedure to repair her ruptured colon, Mrs Cyr was found to have stage three colon cancer. Surgeons also discovered a tumor fused to her uterus.

Woman, 38, who went in for colon surgery wakes up to learn doctor removed her WOMB without permission

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Nikki Allford, 32, has adenomyosis, a little-known condition in which the lining of the uterus sinks deep into the muscular wall of the uterus.

I suffer from the same agonising womb condition as BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty – doctors dismissed me too and told me I ‘just need to get on with it’

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Munchetty, 48, had suffered debilitating symptoms since she was 15, but doctors did not take her symptoms seriously while she was growing up, she told MPs today. A few minutes after taking a stand to talk about her experiences with reproductive health problems today, she also said that her condition has left her

Naga Munchetty tells how agonising womb condition was dismissed for 32 YEARS by doctors who insisted pain was ‘normal’ and told BBC Breakfast star, 48, to ‘suck it up’

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Approximately 9,000 women a year are diagnosed with endometrial cancer

New drug offers hope for woman with incurable womb cancer, after NHS watchdog approves the life-extending treatment

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Chemical straighteners, typically marketed to black women, break down protein bonds in curly hair using chemicals that alter the body's hormonal balance, leaving hair permanently straight.

FDA is mulling a ban on certain chemical HAIR STRAIGHTENERS which have been linked to womb and breast cancers

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Dr. Margaret McCarthy (pictured) is co-leader of the University of Maryland research, which found that inflammation in children's brains can alter the growth of two key neurons: Golgi and Perkinje neurons.

Could a severe infection in the womb raise chance of autism? Scientists make ‘unexpected’ discovery after studying children’s brains

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Half the population will experience it, yet as millions of women across the UK know all too well, even doctors see menopause as something they have to endure (file image).

Just one in five women are aware of womb cancer risks from taking higher-than-prescribed doses of HRT

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Hannah Vaughan (right), who lives in Cheshire, found out she had Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome when she was 16, a condition which means she doesn't have a uterus and can't have periods.

I was born without a uterus. The UK’s breakthrough womb transplant gives me a ‘glimmer of hope’ that I can have a child

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Professor Richard Smith, consultant gynecological surgeon to the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said he was investigating the possibilities of a womb transplant in the 1990s.

Meet the remarkable surgeons behind UK’s first womb transplant

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The medical-surgical team was

UK’s first womb transplant costs £25,000 with charity fundraising events including cake sales helping to fund the operation

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