How to Use fibroid in a Sentence

fibroid

1 of 2 adjective
  • Meaning, the type of fibroid present dictates how a patient might feel.
    — Julie Poole, Bon Appétit, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Davis hopes to help women by revealing her fibroid battle.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Black women are also more likely to have higher fibroid growth than other racial groups.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The baby's soft skull was wedged between two huge fibroid tumors growing alongside him.
    — Redbook, 30 May 2017
  • Others assume their fibroid symptoms are being caused by something else.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 9 May 2018
  • Two years ago, Nikki had a major surgery to remove 12 benign fibroid tumors from her uterus.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Beauvais shared that the doctors made a shocking discovery caused by her fibroid removal that by being caught quickly, saved her life.
    — Aley Arion, Essence, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The study goes on to suggest that when the levels of those two hormones are elevated, an increase in fibroid growth can often be observed.
    — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Similarly, certain drugs may help reduce fibroid pain and other symptoms.
    — Suzannah Weis, SELF, 21 July 2021
  • While a hysterectomy is the most common way to treat fibroid tumors, women who still want to have children can have a myomectomy.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
  • For decades, doctors defaulted to hysterectomy to treat fibroid symptoms.
    — al, 20 June 2022
  • Last month, Rose Wilkerson got a hysterectomy after years of struggling with fibroid tumors on her uterus.
    — Sara Dinatale, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Jewelia, 44, who asked that her last name not be used, said fibroid removal surgery scheduled at Kaiser was canceled twice because of the pandemic.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • There had been no discussion of the services that black women needed most, such as fibroid-tumor screenings, mammograms, and pre- and postnatal care.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • So, because of her previous fibroid surgery, doctors believed a cesarean section would be the safest option during delivery.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026
  • The policies range from guardrails against online bullying to heart attack response training expansions and new uterine fibroid research funding.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Experts say more research is needed, but in the meantime women with a uterine fibroid diagnosis should discuss heart health risk factors with their clinician.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The actress revealed that she was prescribed the painkiller to alleviate complications associated with her fibroid cysts.
    — Essence, 15 Oct. 2021
  • In 2010, after having surgery to remove uterine fibroid tumors, a reaction to a blood thinner actually caused her blood to clot.
    — Amy Sinatra Ayres, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The researchers calculated the study participants’ risk of heart disease at one, three, five and 10 years after their uterine fibroid diagnosis.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Several studies have found that the controversy has reduced the rate of minimally invasive hysterectomies and fibroid removals.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • At the meeting, Blithe recalls, Stratakis prohibited further clinical studies of the fibroid drug that Nieman had proposed.
    — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Surgeons are also doing fewer hysterectomies, reflecting a growing view that the uterus does not outlive its usefulness once childbearing is done and that there are less drastic ways to address common issues such as fibroid tumors.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2019
  • One of those organizations is The White Dress Project, which provides fibroid awareness, raises funds for research, and supports those who are managing life with fibroids.
    — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 30 July 2020
  • Among patients having uterine fibroid embolization, studies show a 13% rate of a repeat procedure after year and 32% at five years, according to Cleveland Clinic.
    — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In 2024, the NIH provided only $17 million in funding for fibroid research, putting it in the bottom 40 of the 330 conditions funded.
    — Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And in July, US Congresswoman Shontel Brown of Ohio reintroduced legislation to create a new federal grant program for fibroid detection.
    — Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • After the procedure, O’Reilly experienced multiple medical problems — endometriosis, fibroid breast tumors requiring biopsies, painful menstrual cycles.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019

fibroid

2 of 2 noun
  • At first, my doctors found two small fibroids the size of peas.
    — Chandelis Duster, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The doctor had told her that her fibroids were too small to be a problem.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Uterine fibroids are benign growths that appear in or close to the uterus.
    — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 28 July 2023
  • That surgery removes fibroids while keeping the uterus intact.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Uterine fibroids are muscular tumors that grow in the wall of your uterus.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Ovarian cysts and uterine fibroids or polyps could also be to blame.
    — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Major surgery to remove uterine fibroids put her out of the game for 16 months.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That’s why doctors use it to destroy uterine fibroids and some tumors.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Last year, Williams had surgery to remove uterine fibroids and missed most of the season.
    — Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The particles set up a roadblock for any blood trying to reach the uterine fibroid.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 24 Jan. 2023
  • During the surgery, the doctor removed both endometriosis and a large fibroid.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Symptomatic fibroids can cause heavy bleeding, pain and pressure in the abdomen.
    — Katherine Hobson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Da Brat had to undergo surgery to remove fibroids and polyps to do carry the embryo.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Da Brat had to undergo surgery to remove fibroids and polyps to carry the embryo.
    — USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Black women are up to three times more likely to be diagnosed with fibroids than White women.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Leaking can be brought on by pregnancy, childbirth, even uterine fibroids.
    — Evin Billington, Health.com, 25 July 2017
  • Secondary dysmenorrhea can be caused by uterine fibroids, cysts, or polyps.
    — Sophia Caraballo, Woman's Day, 25 June 2019
  • Small fibroids rarely need treatment, while large fibroids can be treated with medication or surgery.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Small fibroids rarely need treatment, while large fibroids can be treated with medication or surgery.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
  • She was diagnosed with a blood cancer and multiple uterine fibroids that couldn’t be treated due to her weight.
    — Washington Post, 22 July 2019
  • In 2018, the same doctor determined the fibroid had grown to the size of a grapefruit.
    — Christie Thompson, NPR, 17 June 2026
  • Some people with uterine fibroids have pelvic pain and spotting between periods.
    — Kristine Thomason, Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • To name one example, leiomyomas (more commonly known as fibroids) are benign tumors on the walls of the uterus.
    — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Lupron is used to treat endometriosis and uterine fibroids, among other illnesses.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 8 June 2018
  • With my advanced age and history of fibroids, I was considered a high-risk patient.
    — The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
  • African-American women have a higher rate of uterine fibroids.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Gynecologists also say that biopsies could miss cancer in fibroids, which can be as large as melons.
    — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • Radiofrequency ablation, or use of high frequency sound waves to break up the fibroid from outside your body.
    — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The risk of heart disease was about 80 percent greater in women with uterine fibroids, meaning their risk was almost twice as high.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • According to a lawsuit, the fibroid was small, and could be removed with a simple, noninvasive surgery.
    — Christie Thompson, NPR, 17 June 2026

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