An estimated 600,000 American women have hysterectomies every year to treat a variety of non-cancerous conditions.
And although the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends transvaginal – rather than abdominal — hysterectomy as the safest, least invasive and most cost-effective approach with the fastest recovery time, only 15 to 20 percent of uterus removals are done this way.
