hysterectomy
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She had a partial hysterectomy and bowel resection, and the endometriosis spread over her body including into her lungs.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
After I woke up at the hospital, I needed multiple surgeries, blood transfusions and a partial hysterectomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Wondering about a link between emissions from nearby facilities and her own health woes, Nolan moved away after undergoing a hysterectomy, she said.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Using her health insurance, she paid about £6,000 for a hysterectomy and started HRT.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Then, at twenty-one, Grandma Jenny was diagnosed with cervical cancer and had a hysterectomy.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
During those years 26 minors had “bottom surgery”—23 hysterectomies and three castrations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yet the reasons for allegedly elective hysterectomies, no matter how solid, are often met with resistance.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025
People who have had hysterectomies, and people with conditions like obesity or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which affects collagen and makes tissues stretchier, are at a higher risk.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024
Some of the most common procedures involving robotics include appendectomies, hysterectomies, and gastric bypasses.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024
On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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