Removal of the ovaries and ovarian tubes in women with either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes can almost eliminate the risk of ovarian cancer and reduce the risk of breast cancer by about two-thirds, the study found. Removal of the breasts can reduce the risk of breast cancer by as much as 85 percent. Either procedure reduces the risk of dying by at least two-thirds. By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times
By Malcolm Ritter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A St. Louis jury deliberated for about two hours before returning defense verdicts for an OB-GYN and a hospital accused of medical malpractice. The doctor allegedly failed to remove a cyst and ovary during a hysterectomy and oopherectomy procedure. Barbara Dilworth, 46, suffered from extensive uterine fibroids causing significant menstrual pain and bleeding. She underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy and oopherectomy, the removal of both ovaries and fallopian tubes, on Sept. 13, 2004. Dr. Nathaniel Murdock and resident Dr. Amber Cooper performed the surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
NEW YORK -- When Genae Girard received a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2006, she knew she would be facing medical challenges and high expenses. But she did not expect to run into patent problems. Girard took a genetic test to see if her genes also put her at increased risk for ovarian cancer, which might require the removal of her ovaries. The test came back positive, so she wanted a second opinion from another test.
...0. 7617Uterus and both ovaries, removal of, complete:. For three months after rem...
FAIRBORN -- A national animal-rights group is protesting a Wright State University psychology class in which students surgically remove the ovaries of mice to observe subsequent changes in their behavior. WSU officials say the exercise is carried out under humane conditions and is a necessary part of the curriculum for a class taken by students who might become scientists involved in animal research.
[Rick Schweikert] and co-author Nora W. Coffey - who herself underwent a hysterectomy - assert that women whose uteruses are removed lose sexual function, age more quickly, and develop problems with their hips and backs which can compromise mobility. It says that many of the problems that hysterectomy is supposed to solve will go away by themselves, and that most of the others don't merit major surgery. Fibroids, for example, are small tumors in the uterine lining that can cause heavy bleeding and discomfort, but they aren't cancerous, and can be removed without hysterectomy. Such views challenge medical conventional wisdom. For instance, UPMC's patientinformation pamphlet on the surgery says, "A woman's sexuality and femininity are not changed by a hysterectomy." However, in seeming co...
BOOK. HYSTERECTOMY - the surgical removal of a woman's uterus, and sometimes ovaries and cer...
Miami Beach Women whose ovaries had been removed were twice as likely to develop Parkinson's disease later, according to new research. Mayo Clinic researchers said the increased risk may be the result of losing the natural, brain-protecting effect of estrogen, and preliminary data suggest that risk also may apply to Alzheimer's disease.
ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Death rates rise when women under 45 years old undergo bilateral ovariectomy -- surgical removal of both ovaries -- and do not receive proper hormone replacement therapy, according to a new Mayo Clinic study to be published in the October 1 issue of The Lancet Oncology. Mortality from all causes increased 1.7 times for women in this age category, and was particularly increased for estrogen-related cancers and diseases of the brain and cardiovascular system. The increased risk was mainly restricted to those women who were not given estrogen after the surgery until at least age 45 (within five years of the approximate age of normal menopause). Also, the increased risk became evident only 10 or more years after the ovariectomy. Walter Rocca, M....
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this interim final rule that amends the regulations governing the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Traumatic Injury Protection (TSGLI) program by adding certain genitourinary (GU) system losses to the TSGLI Schedule of Losses and defining terms relevant to these new losses. This amendment is necessary to make qualifying GU losses a basis for paying GU-injured Servicemembers TSGLI benefits. The intended effect is to expand the list of losses for which TSGLI payments can be made.
... adding anatomical loss of one or both ovaries to the TSGLI Schedule of Losses in paragraph (f)(1... replacement therapy in lieu of surgical removal. As a result, VA is adding permanent loss of use o...
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