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01-14-2009, 09:10 AM
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 cancer by approximately 80 percent in women who carry a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, researchers report in the January 13 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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