Couple that fought to ban medical procedure after wife's cancer looks back at year of changes

After nearly a year of campaigning to ban a procedure favored by the medical community and dealing with his wife's life-threatening cancer diagnosis, Hooman Noorchashm, lecturer on surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said he finally feels his family is on solid ground again. Noorchashm, a cardio-thoracic surgeon, and his wife Amy Reed, a certified-anesthesiologist, spearheaded a campaign last fall to ban the practice of using laparoscopic power morcellation in the removal of uterine fibroids or the uterus due to possible cancer risks.

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