The SEED-AD Research Program in the Women's Health Research Center at Mayo Clinic studies how removal of the ovaries affects ...

Some people might assume that, when you have your uterus removed via hysterectomy, the surgeon also takes out your ovaries. While that can happen depending on medical necessity, ovary removal goes by ...

Researchers have developed a new prediction tool that could help clinicians better assess whether complete tumour removal is ...

NEW YORK — Women who have their ovaries removed before menopause run a heightened risk of developing dementia or other mental problems later in life — unless they take estrogen until age 50, a new ...

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.

It is clear that the ovaries should not be removed unless pathologic changes are detected; women whose ovaries are removed will require hormonal substitution therapy. The issue of whether the uterus ...

Doctors later apologized after realizing that she didn’t have ovarian cancer and said tumors had been discovered elsewhere in her body A woman is opening up about undergoing an unnecessary ...

C.G.C. Kristen Shannon answers the question: 'Recommend Having Ovaries Removed?' Oct. 19, 2007— -- Question from 5757578:I recently underwent chemo/radiation for LBC. I was genetically tested and ...

Angelina Jolie does not regret undergoing a double mastectomy and having her ovaries removed. The actress, 50, had the procedure after discovering she carried the BRCA gene mutation that increases the ...

Two years after her double mastectomy, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie said she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer. The glamorous wife of actor ...

Explaining the actress' decision to have her ovaries removed preemptively. — -- In a moving and personal op-ed piece, Angelina Jolie announced today that she has undergone surgery to remove her ...

Women of childbearing age who had both ovaries removed, in a procedure called bilateral oophorectomy, were more likely to develop heart failure later in life, according to a study being presented at ...