What are the causes of multiple uterine fibroids? Are multiple uterine fibroids benign tumors?

Women with childbearing experience are immune to many diseases, which helps to fight against multiple uterine fibroids. So, how do multiple uterine fibroids form? About 20% of women over 35 years old suffer from multiple uterine fibroids, but most patients fail to detect them because the fibroids are small and asymptomatic. Clinically, the incidence of fibroids is only between 4% and 11%. Multiple uterine fibroids are benign tumors, but a few women still cannot escape the danger of malignant changes (the rate of malignant changes is about 1%), especially elderly women. Therefore, patients with rapidly growing fibroids or postmenopausal fibroids should be vigilant.

Multiple uterine fibroids can cause heavy bleeding, or long-term menorrhagia, prolonged menstruation, leading to anemia, which cannot be cured by drugs. At this time, resection is the solution. Multiple uterine fibroids grow to the size of a fist, causing compression of other organs in the pelvis. Surgical resection can relieve symptoms, and large fibroids are more likely to worsen than small fibroids.

The exact cause of multiple uterine fibroids is still unclear, but it may be related to excessive estrogen levels in the body and long-term estrogen stimulation. The formation of multiple uterine fibroids is as follows:

(a) Multiple uterine fibroids appear in women after menarche, more often in middle-aged women. After menopause, the fibroids stop growing and gradually shrink;

(ii) Multiple uterine fibroids are often complicated by endometrial hyperplasia;

(3) During pregnancy, estrogen levels increase and fibroids multiply rapidly;

(4) Patients with ovarian granulosa cell tumors and theca cell tumors (which can secrete estrogen) often have uterine fibroids;

Exogenous estrogen can accelerate the growth of fibroids.

By reading the above content, we should have a deeper understanding of the disease. I hope this article can be helpful to you. I wish you good health!