A retrospective study was performed to assess the histopathologic findings in high-risk women undergoing bilateral prophylactic (salpingo)-oophorectomy. The medical files of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation ...

Removal of the fallopian tubes may help prevent ovarian cancer, according to an opinion written by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Committee on Gynecologic Practice. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy may offer dissimilar protection against breast and gynecologic cancers to ...

This large case-control study assessed the potential beneficial effects of tubal ligation and salpingectomy on ovarian cancer risk. Data on patient characteristics, morbidity/mortality, medication use ...

Undergoing prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy (PSO) after previous surgery for BRCA1/BRCA2 breast cancer was associated with a significantly reduced risk of death, according to an Italian ...

Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy -- removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes -- reduces the relative risk of breast cancer by approximately 50 percent and the risk of ovarian and fallopian tube ...

A study of over 200,500 women who had a hysterectomy for non-cancerous reasons found an increased risk of death in women under 50 years of age when the ovaries and fallopian tubes were also removed ...

The article by Steenbeek et al 1 is of significant importance. The authors have done a commendable job in trying to throw light on a rare condition, and this effort provides clinicians with ...

This analysis included asymptomatic high-risk women age ≥ 30 years who elected RRSO at enrollment. Women provided risk factor data and underwent preoperative cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) serum testing ...

—A purported reduction in breast cancer risk with risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers may be due to inappropriate data analyses. Reviewed by Vrunda Bhavsar Desai, ...

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