Fibroid Fighters

The Fibroid Fighters Foundation is a public welfare organization created to advance the cause of women's health and the safe, effective treatment of uterine fibroids. Our mission is to educate people about the social, economical, and health effects of uterine fibroids through advocating for further research.

Fibroids affect 1 in 3 women, and 80% of African American women have fibroids. With so many women affected by this disease, you would think the most common treatment offered would be less invasive than a hysterectomy. Unfortunately, hysterectomy--the complete or partial removal of the female reproductive system--is the most common treatment offered for fibroids.

Women are often told they must suffer through their symptoms or get a hysterectomy. It is the Fibroid Fighters Foundation's goal to end this silence and break the behavior that surrounds fibroid diagnosis and treatment to increase the awareness for safer, effective fibroid treatments such as uterine fibroid embolization.