• Major breast diseases affect women: breast cancer and fibrocystic breast disease. • Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed in women throughout the world: the leading cause of death due to cancer in developing countries (lung cancer deaths exceed...
• Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB): Dysfunctional uterine bleeding. • Irregularity of the vaginal bleeding pattern in a woman between the ages of 10-50 years of age. Most commonly seen in teenagers not yet developed a regulatory ovulatory pattern and in...
• Extremely common among women of childbearing age. • Pelvic inflammation and fibrosis: can lead to infertility. • Normal endometrial stromal cells in other areas of the pelvis and abdomen other than the inside of the uterus. • Causes chronic pelvic pain, particularly with...
•Female reproductive system: external sex organs (or genitalia) and internal reproductive organs o Immature at birth o Puberty: Reproductive system becomes mature. •Vagina: Fibromuscular tube starts at the external genitalia and ends with the cervix. o Referred to: the...