Consultant of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Head of the Gynecological Oncology Unit at the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University and supervisor of the Dr. Abdullah Hussein Basalamah Chair in Gynecological Oncology, Dr. Khaled Hussein Wali Set, said that fibroids have nothing to do with marriage or spinsterhood, as they affect girls and women alike, pointing out Fibroids may affect dark-skinned women more.
He added, in an exclusive statement to "Al-Watan", that fibroids do not usually grow after menopause because it depends on estrogen in its growth, noting that fibroids are considered benign tumors that affect the uterus and usually affect women at an early age of childbearing between 30 and 30 -40 years and tumors may be of varying sizes and in different places of the uterus.
He said that the main reason for the emergence of fibroids is unknown, and there are several factors associated with their appearance, such as genetic and hormonal factors in addition to other factors, and there is a factor that may help to occur, which is a lot of eating red meat.
He added that global statistics indicate that between 20-30% of women are exposed to fiber in the womb, and that there are no statistics on the percentage of Saudi women infected with this disease, unfortunately, but according to what we see, the percentage is considered equal to the global percentage. Sett specified that the problem facing fibroid patients in Saudi Arabia is the large size and ramifications of the tumors, which requires a specialized center to perform their operations and have a blood bank, since such an operation needs a blood transfusion and the patient may sometimes bleed and need a blood transfusion, especially Women with this disease often suffer from severe anemia. He said that the lack of awareness of early detection is a major factor in the problems experienced by most fibroid patients in the Kingdom, and because of that there are cases of fibroids of very large size that we did not see during the training period in Canada.
