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    It's not known exactly why fibroids occur. "They probably have partly a genetic and partly an environmental cause," says Brisbane-based obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Graham Tronc, who helped found the Brisbane Fibroid Clinic in 2001.

    He explains that they generally don't appear until after women ovulate for the first time and they tend to decrease in size after women go through menopause. As a result researchers believe the hormones - oestrogen and progesterone - affect fibroids’ development and growth.

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