Chelee
09-18-2010, 05:58 PM
CHICAGO — Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer, and boosts their chances of living longer, new research suggests.
The study is the largest to date to find advantages for preventive surgery for women who carry BRCA gene mutations. Women with the faulty genes have a dramatically higher cancer risk than other women — five times greater for breast cancer and at least 10 times greater for ovarian cancer.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38939150/ns/health-cancer/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38939150/ns/health-cancer/)
Chelee
The study is the largest to date to find advantages for preventive surgery for women who carry BRCA gene mutations. Women with the faulty genes have a dramatically higher cancer risk than other women — five times greater for breast cancer and at least 10 times greater for ovarian cancer.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38939150/ns/health-cancer/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38939150/ns/health-cancer/)
Chelee