Q. How large are fibroids?

Answer: The size of fibroids varies a great deal among women. Fibroid tumors are almost always benign, almost never cancerous.

Some fibroid tumors are so small that you would need a microscope to see them.

Normally they range in size from a tiny speck, (like a small seed) to pea sized, to walnut sized, to lime sized, and up to orange sized. The large majority fall into one of these size categories. 

In exceptional cases, fibroid tumors can grow to be up to cantaloupe size.

A very few become large masses, big enough that they can take up the entire abdominal area. When they are this large they distort the uterus and nearby organs.

Large tumors like that can weigh as much as 50 pounds (22.7 kilos)!

The largest fibroid ever found and recorded weighed in at 140 pounds (63.6 kilos)!!

[I don't know whether that's in the Guiness Book of World Records or not, but whether it is or isn't, I wouldn't recommend that anyone try to better that record...  8-)  - The Editor]