LONDON -- Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed Tuesday that she has undergone more preventive surgery, having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in hopes of reducing her risk of cancer.

The most effective step to battling ovarian cancer may have little to do with ovaries and more to do with surgical removal of the fallopian tubes. In this procedure, called a salpingectomy, the tubes ...

A prevention strategy developed by B.C. researchers reduces the risk of the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer by nearly 80 per cent, according to a new UBC study published today in JAMA ...

Fallopian tube cancer, a rare gynecologic cancer, is gaining awareness due to its potential origin for many high-grade serous ovarian cancers. New diagnostics improve early detection and treatment, ...

While women at average risk of ovarian cancer are not recommended to have surgery solely to remove their fallopian tubes, many surgeons offer "opportunistic" tube removal during other gynecologic ...

The discovery that most ovarian cancers start, not in the ovaries, but the Fallopian tubes, means there may be a way to help prevent a disease that kills about 1000 women in Australia each year. It ...

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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 ...