A survey carried out by Kantar Health for Gedeon Richter France Division of Women’s Health reveals that 220 out of 2,498 women had symptomatic fibroids. And that most of these women do not take care of themselves.
81% of women who suffer from uterine fibroid are prone to bleeding and pain, 18% complain of suffering only. These disorders and pains affect their quality of life, in particular their sex and love life.
Despite the implications of this disease and the constraining symptoms, only 38% of women are on treatment and 9% of them say they do not take it.
There is no medical treatment capable of permanently eliminating fibroids, but 44% of women treat themselves with analgesics, 28% with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, to combat pain and progestins to limit bleeding.
The most common benign tumor is fibroma. It concerns 35% of European women over 40 and more than half of Afro-Caribbean women.
While the majority of fibroids do not affect the state of health of patients, in 30% of women they are symptomatic and manifest as bleeding and pain.
