There was a lot that Cynthia Morton didn’t know about uterine fibroids when she began studying them in 1989. She didn’t know, for instance, that she already had or would soon develop one. That revelation came during her pregnancy in 1991, when a fibroid showed up on an ultrasound test she had received to monitor the pregnancy.
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