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Risk-reducing salpingectomy with delayed oophorectomy to prevent ovarian cancer in women with an increased inherited risk: insights into an alternative strategy.
Familial cancer - 1 Nov 2024
Gootzen T A, Steenbeek M P, van Bommel Mhd, IntHout J, Kets C M, Hermens Rpmg, de Hullu J A
Abstract excerpt
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal type of gynaecological cancer, due to lack of effective screening possibilities and because the disease tends to metastasize before onset of symptoms. Women with an increased inherited risk for EOC are advised to undergo a risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO), which decreases their EOC risk by 96% when performed within guideline ages. However, it also...
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