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Will removing your fallopian tubes reduce your risk of ovarian cancer?
Increasingly, doctors are turning to prevention for this hard-to treat cancer.
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Ovarian cancer is a challenging foe. It's often found at an advanced stage when it's difficult to treat.
In recent years, researchers have learned that many cases of ovarian cancer don't even start in the ovaries. "It turns out that ovarian cancer is a bit of a misnomer. We think a portion of ovarian cancers actually arise from cells in the fallopian tubes," says Shelley Tworoger, adjunct associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and associate center director of population science at the Moffitt Cancer Center.
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