Ian C. Cook, MD, discusses the feasibility and benefits of adding bilateral salpingectomy to nongynecologic surgery.

Because 70% of ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance is “encouraging people who are done having children to discuss with their doctors the possibility of ...

A systematic review found that bilateral salpingectomy is associated with roughly an 80% reduction in risk for the serous ...

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) often originates in the fallopian tube fimbriae, not the ovarian surface epithelium. Opportunistic salpingectomy is recommended during benign gynecologic ...

Ovarian cancer kills an estimated 12,700 women annually, with around 20,000 women getting a diagnosis each year.

Genetic susceptibility accounts for 20% of ovarian cancer risk, and risk-reducing bilateral salpingectomy remains the gold standard for prevention. In this study, about 24% of patients with high-grade ...

I woke up from surgery groggy, with three minuscule incisions in my abdomen and huge peace of mind. I’d just had my fallopian tubes laparoscopically removed, as it’s the best—and possibly only—defense ...

Hi! I'm Alice, and when I was 26, I received a bilateral salpingectomy (aka I had my fallopian tubes removed). Alice Lahoda The entire experience of getting my tubes removed was long and frustrating, ...

Women whose fallopian tubes are removed during sterilization via laparoscopy have only marginally more surgical complications than those whose tubes are simply cut, a study shows. The removal, ...

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 ...