If we were to look at scale, given the female population in the U.S. now, a snapshot of numbers, though surgery continues on a rolling basis, could look like this (I promise this is very simple math):
There are ~160M women in the U.S. today.
40% will have a hysterectomy. That's 64,000,000 hysterectomies when those women are between 45-54 (source: Dept. HHS)
55%, or 35,200,000 women, of those women's ovaries would be removed during that hysterectomy.
And that number almost doubles if the women whose ovaries were removed during surgery for benign ovarian cysts are added in...but let's play it safe and say that:
50 million women who are alive in the U.S. at this moment, women who have absolutely nothing wrong with their ovaries that requires removal, could end up having a surgery described this way.
How much would those surgeries bring in at today's rate of $33,180 per surgery average (source: AHRQ)?
$1,659,000,000,000 - that's 1 trillion, 659 billion dollars...just for elective ovary removals folded into hysterectomy/cystectomy elective surgeries.
What was the thinking about this surgery at the end of the 19th century?
There are ~160M women in the U.S. today.
40% will have a hysterectomy. That's 64,000,000 hysterectomies when those women are between 45-54 (source: Dept. HHS)
55%, or 35,200,000 women, of those women's ovaries would be removed during that hysterectomy.
And that number almost doubles if the women whose ovaries were removed during surgery for benign ovarian cysts are added in...but let's play it safe and say that:
50 million women who are alive in the U.S. at this moment, women who have absolutely nothing wrong with their ovaries that requires removal, could end up having a surgery described this way.
How much would those surgeries bring in at today's rate of $33,180 per surgery average (source: AHRQ)?
$1,659,000,000,000 - that's 1 trillion, 659 billion dollars...just for elective ovary removals folded into hysterectomy/cystectomy elective surgeries.
What was the thinking about this surgery at the end of the 19th century?
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