Sharon Stone suffering from a “large tumor”, the actress misdiagnosed? New revelations

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Because indeed, the star of the movies Casino andyou Total Recallclaimed to have been “again misdiagnosed” and to have “had another bad medical procedure”, 20 years after suffering a stroke. Which leads him to relay in another of his tweets, an article published by the law firm Jonathan C. Reiter, specializing in medical errors, evoking the frequency with which women are less well diagnosed than men.

Fibroids”do not grow in postmenopausal womens”

They would then be 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed when they have a heart attack. And 33% of strokes are more likely in women than men to be misdiagnosed. Except that this Friday, November 4, the magazine People published an article in which Dr Mary Jane Minkin, obstetrician-gynecologist certified by the Yale University Medical School Board of Trustees, explains that the fibroid (the one concerning Sharon Stone), this benign tumor located on the level of the uterus, is almost systematically detected at the first examination.

“It would be very unusual for a large fibroid to be missed during an exam in an average sized woman.“, she said, adding that he would be”also very unusual that a large fibroid develops in a 64-year-old woman“because in general they”do not grow in postmenopausal women“. Note that the magazine People also adds that according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, fibroids are “relatively common – up to 80% of women develop them before they reach age 50“.

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