An operation to remove the uterus should be called a uterectomy – like the removal of the tonsils is a tonsillectomy, or an ...

The name hysterectomy is rooted in a mental health condition – ‘hysteria’ – that was once believed to affect women ...

cancer. However, in a survey colleagues and I did of almost 500 Australian adults, which is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, one in five people thought hysterectomy meant removal of ...

Have you had a tonsillectomy (your tonsils taken out), appendectomy (your appendix removed) or lumpectomy (removal of a lump from your breast)? The suffix “ectomy” denotes surgical removal of the ...

Researchers mapped Y chromosome loss across thousands of individual cells from human cancers, with disturbing results.

Gaps in testing mean that many womb cancer patients with Lynch syndrome go undetected, leaving them at risk of developing bowel cancer. Family members are also left vulnerable to cancer risk, ...

Womb cancer affects around 9,7000 women every year in the UK. Nicknamed a silent killer, when the disease is diagnosed at later stages, only 15 per cent of women will survive.

“Pelvic floor therapy is like physical therapy to strengthen all the muscles and tissues in your pelvis that can become weak ...

As a result, only 48 percent of eligible womb cancer patients ultimately received the necessary blood tests. The impact of undetected Lynch syndrome. The gaps in testing for Lynch syndrome put many ...

Findings from the largest study of its kind have revealed an abnormal process in the womb lining as the explanation behind ...

Researchers examined data on 2,500 womb cancer patients across the UK and Ireland between 2022 and 2023. They found that 91% of tumours were tested for markers of Lynch syndrome, ...