Preventing Ovarian Cancer

Preventing Ovarian Cancer

Preventing Ovarian Cancer? Removing the fallopian tubes can prevent many ovarian cancers, yet women are often not counselled on this option.

It’s long been known that ovarian cancer can start in the fallopian tubes. There is a need for greater awareness of offering the procedure, after informed consent, to post-reproductive women undergoing elective abdominal or pelvic surgeries. Surgery such as sterilisation, ablation, hernia repair or gallbladder removal.

Experts estimate that incorporating the procedure, called opportunistic salpingectomy, into 60% of eligible surgeries could prevent nearly 6,000 ovarian cancer deaths every year.

Emerging research indicates that removing the fallopian tubes could prevent nearly 80% of the most common and lethal ovarian cancers.

The procedure also preserves the ovaries, which produce key hormones throughout a woman’s life.