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What Do Fallopian Tubes Have to Do With Ovarian Cancer? (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Series, Part 3 of 9)
What do your fallopian tubes have to do with ovarian cancer risk?
Research has changed the way we understand ovarian cancer, including evidence that many high-grade serous ovarian cancers may actually begin in the fallopian tubes. That discovery has opened the door to an important question for people with hereditary ovarian cancer risk: could removing the fallopian tubes first allow some people to keep their ovaries longer?
In this episode of BRCA & Beyond’s Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month series, Marisa breaks down the “tubes first, ovaries later” approach, also known as salpingectomy with…
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