New study highlights early salpingectomy as a promising ovarian cancer prevention strategy, offering protection while ...
Opportunistic salpingectomy (OS) is feasible but not performed in almost a quarter of patients later diagnosed with high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC), and about 40% of patients with a first-degree ...
Many patients later diagnosed with high-grade serous cancer had prior surgical or genetic testing opportunities that could have reduced their ovarian cancer risk, underscoring the need to expand ...
Vasectomy is more cost-effective at a $100,000 willingness-to-pay (WTP) threshold. Salpingectomy may prevent more pregnancies and reduces ovarian cancer risk. Salpingectomy becomes the more ...
Genetic susceptibility accounts for 20% of ovarian cancer risk, and risk-reducing bilateral salpingectomy remains the gold standard for prevention. In this study, about 24% of patients with high-grade ...