Recent research has uncovered concerning links between premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy and cognitive health. The study reveals that women who undergo ovary removal before age 40 experience ...

Known as "the silent killer" due to its lack of symptoms and reliable screening tests, ovarian cancer remains one of the deadliest gynecologic cancers, claiming more than 12,000 lives annually.

Ovarian cancer has long been one of the deadliest cancers to strike women. No tests are available to detect it early, so most patients are diagnosed in later stages, when the cancer is more likely to ...

HONOLULU — High-risk women who undergo prophylactic surgery to reduce ovarian cancer risk have few lingering worries about developing cancer in the future or regrets about their decision to undergo ...

A new study examined the cognitive effects of ovary removal in females. A researcher with Wake Forest University utilized data from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging to study females who had their ...

In the field of cancer medicine, the prevailing wisdom is that early detection and diagnosis saves lives. Catching cancer at earlier stages generally improves patient outcomes and increases chances of ...

Opportunistic salpingectomy, or the removal of fallopian tubes in women already undergoing another abdominal or gynecological ...

Women of childbearing age who had both ovaries removed, in a procedure called bilateral oophorectomy, were more likely to develop heart failure later in life, according to a study being presented at ...

Tracy Meechan, a 41-year-old Scottish woman, said she has now waited over two years for surgery to have a large ovarian cyst removed Meechan told the BBC that her cyst causes her so much pain that she ...

In February 2018 Melissa Hubbard underwent surgery to remove part of her colon. What she didn’t know until afterward was that her ovaries were removed as well. Removing Hubbard’s ovaries had been ...