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Why Would I Remove Healthy Ovaries to Prevent Cancer? (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Series, Part 5 of 9)
What does it mean when your doctor recommends removing healthy ovaries to prevent a cancer you don’t have?
In Episode 5 of the BRCA & Beyond Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month series, we’re breaking down why risk-reducing removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes...known as a risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy, or RRSO, may be recommended for people with certain hereditary ovarian cancer risks.
We’ll talk about why ovarian cancer prevention can look so different from screening for other cancers, why the timing of preventive ovary removal depends on the genetic mutation you carry, and what this…
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