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Hysterectomy: The Ashley Treatment
Ashley is a girl from Seattle, Washington born in 1997 2. The Ashley Treatment is a collection of medical procedures (growth attenuation therapy, hysterectomy, breast bud removal and appendectomy) to improve Ashley’s quality of life 2. Ashley is the first child to receive this kind of treatment as far as their parents’ aware2.
Ashley’s mental and motor abilities were not developing normally which had been noticed by her parents within a month of her uncomplicated birth1. Ashley’s parents consulted neurology, medical genetics, and developmental pediatrics but they failed to uncover a specific cause for her symptoms even after extensive subsequent evaluation1. They diagnosed it as brain impairment with marked developmental deficiencies of unknown

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