Elisabeth Johnson found out that she had a fibroid in 2010. Her periods were slightly heavier than usual, she said, so she went to the doctor and got a pelvic ultrasound. She was living in Dallas at the time. As she recalls, the doctor didn’t give her answers about how she got the fibroid — a benign tumor in her uterus — or what she could do to remove it. What she was told, she said, was that it was something that happened to mostly Black women, like herself, or Hispanic women. When she recounted the experience to her mother, she told Johnson that she and other women in their family also had them.