Letter from Dana Shoenhard
We Need More Medical Research
Imagine you are a woman like me, late 50s, with a 13-year history of taking birth control to ensure you and your husband didn’t have 13 children. Your uterus is scarred with fibroids, some as wide as 5 cm, which prevents the ultrasound tech from being able to measure the lining reliably; therefore, they cannot tell if you have cancer without taking a biopsy.
Now imagine a pair of extremely sharp, sterilized scissors, 12 inches long. No local anesthesia is given while those very pointed scissors enter your body, are used to pry open the cervix muscle and applied against the back of your uterus wall—holding it in place so the biopsy can be taken. Barbaric. Extremely painful during the procedure.
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