00.12.12 - Lasers help shrink uterine fibroid tumors.
Lasers help shrink uterine fibroid tumors.
A laser technique that successfully shrinks uterine fibroids after they are heated has been used experimentally in women. This technique is among the new methods employed to avoid hysterectomies in women with uterine fibroids. Lasers help shrink uterine fibroid tumors. Researchers Dr. Wladyslaw M. Gedroyc, radiologist at St. Mary's Hospital in London, and Dr. Penny Law. The study findings were presented at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America this month.