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"66% of HYSTERECTOMIES may be unnecessary"
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Endometrial ablation, myomectomy and robotic laparoscopic myomectomy are a few of the alternative treatments to hysterectomy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/80116/">Endometrial ablation is a procedure that destroys the uterine lining using a laser beam, heat, electricity or freezing</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/80116/">some doctors recommend hysterectomy for various reasons such as the complications of myomectomy or additional medical factors for the individual patient</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/80116/">reading between the lines -- and that also happens to be where many uninsured and underinsured women fall</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/80116/"><DIV class="videowrapnovid"><DIV class="videorightsubindiv"><IMG width="200" height="133" border="0" class="photo" alt="fepr071121hysterectomy" src="http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_thumb_fepr071121hysterectomy.jpg" /> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="videowrapnovid"> <DIV class="videoextrasvid"> <P class="smalltitle">Share</P></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/80116/"><DIV class="thebox"><TABLE width="150" height="200" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><TBODY><TR><TD align="center" id="rtvwaw-launch"><A href="http://www.rockthevote.com/indexNoPop.html"><IMG border="0" src="http://www.rockthevote.com/images/ovr-web-banners/150x200_e.gif" alt="Register to Vote: Rock the Vote, powered by Working Assets Wireless" /></A> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV class="leftad"> <DIV class="rightadnote">A</DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D83E7379-C79B-4162-9E0F-DC0CFB18AA89/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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