Surgery can lower cancer risk in high-risk brca1/2carriers
 

Removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes, a surgical procedurereferred to as salpingo-oophorectomy, in women who carry the BRCA1or BRCA2 gene mutation, can lower their risk of breast cancer byabout 50 percent and their risk of ovarian or fallopian tube cancerby roughly 80 percent, suggest the results of a review of 10published studies.

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