[Music] did you know that about 80 percent of women will have uterine fibroids in their lifetime fibroids are muscular tumors that grow within the uterus or womb of a woman in the vast majority of cases fibroid tumors are benign meaning non-cancerous a woman's risk of fibroids increases as she ages into her 30s and 40s has a family history of fibroids obesity being of the african-american race and with increased consumption of red meat and ham many women with fibroids may not have symptoms and treatment may not be needed however some women may have symptoms due to the large size of the fibroid or the location of the fibroid within the uterus symptoms may include pelvic pain heavy menstrual bleeding frequent urination complications during pregnancy and even infertility multiple treatment options are available depending on the size and location of the fibroid and the symptoms experienced options include hormonal medications such as birth control surgical removal of the fibroids anti-hormone injectable medications to shrink the fibroids and radiologic procedures leading to obstruction of the blood supply to the fibroid discuss your symptoms with your primary care clinician or gynecologist and monitor the growth of the fibroids you