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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prognosis and prognostic factors of a large retrospective series of mucinous borderline tumors of the ovary (excluding peritoneal pseudomyxoma). Background: Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy ...

A history of bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy does not reduce the odds of death from cardiovascular disease among postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes, although there may be an association between ...

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 ...

Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Undergoing prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy (PSO) after ...

Selumetinib Plus Adjuvant Radioactive Iodine in Patients With High-Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Phase III, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial (ASTRA) Unpublished data from three centers ...

Risk-reducing mastectomy and risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy are options for the primary prevention of breast and ovarian cancers, and they have been shown in multiple studies to have efficacy.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women aged 45 years or younger who undergo bilateral oophorectomy and report having a first-degree relative who ...