Stacey Claus spent more than 25 years as a nurse at Cleveland Clinic, so she knew when something felt wrong. Still, the signs of her cancer looked a lot like problems many women deal with every month.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent. Kira Wynn lost her mother to ovarian cancer ...
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified a novel trigger of a deadly form of ovarian cancer. Discovery of a subset of high-risk progenitor cells that reside in fallopian tube ...
Women diagnosed with breast cancer who carry particular BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic variants are offered surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes as this dramatically reduces their risk of ...
The removal of the fallopian tube while preserving the ovary, as demonstrated by gynecological surgeon Ingo Runnebaum using a model (GPI Anatomicals, USA), is a preventive measure against ovarian ...
Ovarian cancer has a particularly poor survival rate. Only one in two women will live five years beyond their diagnosis. There is no effective screening test, and symptoms can be hard to spot. This ...
University of Manchester researchers have shown that analysis of fluid flushed through a fallopian tube holds promise for providing insights into molecular changes linked to early ovarian cancer ...
Here’s a life-saving fact you may not know: Nearly all fatal ovarian cancers start not in the ovaries, but in the fallopian tubes — the ducts that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. Removing ...
Women diagnosed with breast cancer who carry particular BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic variants are offered surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes as this dramatically reduces their risk of ...
Two surgeons recently scrubbed in for the same patient. Her story appeared in The New York Times – one of the first times a national audience has seen what this choice looks like in an operating room.