Study: Women Should Keep Their Ovaries

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Study: Women Should Keep Their Ovaries

Mon Aug 1, 1:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Most women getting a hysterectomy should keep their ovaries because the common extra step of removing them seems to do no good and might decrease their long-term survival, researchers report.

The provocative study, being published Monday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, does not settle the issue. It does not track actual patients, but uses other data to create a model of the surgery's effects.

Still, the work promises to raise questions from women and their doctors about a procedure long accepted despite little evidence to back it.

Some 615,000 hysterectomies — the surgical removal of all or part of the uterus — are performed every year. Ninety percent of them are for noncancerous reasons. More than half of those women also get their ovaries removed not because the ovaries are diseased but as a protective measure against developing ovarian cancer in the future...cont'd

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050801/ap_on_he_me/hysterectomy_ovaries;_ylt=Av.GTON8.Mitp6C47zZgCSas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3czJjNGZoBHNlYwM3NTE-

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1. Good. I'm rather attached

to them.

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2. Yes, I will thanks.

Mine ain't going anywhere if I have anything to say about it...and I do:)

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3. Thanks

It was interesting to compare the yahoo story to the one here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x10156

particularly since we got into a discussion about how medical news is reported.

In this one there wasn't an anecdote from anyone. It makes it a lot easier to write!!

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4. two things

My late mother had a hysterectomy when she was in her late 40s and kept the tubes/ovaries. She recently died of ovarian cancer. So much for that IMO.

And furthermore, I myself had the same surgery and they removed the ovaries, etc. It was a good thing I decided to opt for this because it turned out that I had a huge cyst on one ovary and other problems found as well. I required three biopsies and they thought I had cancer. Luckily it was not cancer; pre-cancerous conditions.

So, I don't regret having them removed because I would have ended up back on the operating table again and cut open once again.

I wonder who is behind this "study" so to speak exactly?

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