July: Uterine Fibroid Awareness Month
Dr. Suzanne Slonim and her wife, Pam Gerber, above, and Teyah Scales, right. Fibroids affect about half of all women but now can be treated with a minimally invasive procedure DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Thanks to the work of Dallas couple Dr.
Suzanne Slonim and Pam Gerber, July has been designated Uterine Fibroid Awareness Month in Texas. Slonim is a doctor who specializes in a minimally invasive fibroid procedure that replaces the need for a hysterectomy in most cases.
Gerber decided more women need to know they don’t need to live with the pain and discomfort of fibroids that at least 50 percent of women develop.
Teyah Scales Teyah Scales, Slonim’s patient, said she always had cramps during her cycle, but “I didn’t know it was fibroids.
