Novel ovarian cancer prevention surgery benefits sexual function, menopausal symptoms

Genetic variants significantly impact risk for ovarian cancer, but standard of care preventive surgery to remove a woman’s ovaries and fallopian tubes causes early menopause, sleep disturbances and worse sexual function.“Thirty years ago, women were identified as BRCA mutation carriers because they were young and had breast cancer,” Karen H. Lu, MD, executive vice president and

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