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 ...

Filmmaker Angelina Jolie Pitt announced Tuesday she had undergone surgery to remove her ovaries and Fallopian tubes to reduce her risk of cancer. Above, Jolie backstage at the Hollywood Film Awards in ...

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 ...

The presence of serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC) at the time of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) significantly increased the risk of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) in BRCA1/2 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO --- A new study underscores the importance for women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer to get genetic counseling and testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that make them more ...

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 ...

Background A 30-year-old woman underwent a routine sonogram at 6 weeks of gestation during her first pregnancy and was found to have a 6 cm complex right-ovarian mass, thought to be a dermoid cyst.

—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. Share on Facebook. Opens in a new ...

Table 1. Summary of Studies on Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Prophylactic Oophorectomy Study No. of carriers included Mean follow-up Breast cancer relative risk reduction (1-RR)(%) Ref. Women with ...