We Can Remove Fibroids Through Laparoscopic Surgery – Edi-Osagie
•Says They’re Benign Tumours, Not Cancers Chioma Umeha Dr. Edmond Edi-Osagie, Consultant Gynaecologist, Fertility Specialist and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon based in Manchester, UK, in this interview with CHIOMA UMEHA, speaks on why he is setting up a fertility and endoscopic surgery service in Lekki, Lagos. Fibroid is an issue that is of interest to many women of reproductive age especially here in Nigeria. What are fibroids? Thank you for that very pertinent question in our contest. Fibroids are probably the most common benign condition that women, particularly African women, experience. Fibroids are actually benign tumors or masses of the womb that occur in women and the way to think about fibroids is to think about benign breast lumps. This is because fibroids are the womb’s equivalent of benign lumps that occur in the breasts. They are benign, originate from muscle and fibrous tissue and are particularly common in African women. We do not know how many African