An ovarian cancer research group recommends that even women at low risk for these malignancies consider removing their fallopian tubes when they get pelvic surgeries. There’s no way to screen for ...

Doctors are now advising more women to get their fallopian tubes removed in order to avoid ovarian cancer. Removing a woman's fallopian tubes, also known as a salpingectomy, is usually performed as a ...

“Knowledge is power,” says Samantha Carlucci, 26. The Ravena, New York, resident recently had a hysterectomy that included removing her fallopian tubes – and believes it saved her life. The Ovarian ...

Blocked or damaged fallopian tubes are a common cause for infertility. Fallopian tubes are slender tubes in the woman's reproductive system that help transfer the eggs from the ovaries (where the eggs ...

Every day, an average of 11 women in the UK succumb to ovarian cancer, despite mortality rates dropping by a quarter since the 1970s, states Cancer Research UK. Although it's the 6th most common ...

“Knowledge is power,” says Samantha Carlucci, 26. The Ravena, New York, resident recently had a hysterectomy that included removing her fallopian tubes – and believes it saved her life. The Ovarian ...

Most, and possibly all, ovarian cancers start, not in ovaries, but instead in the fallopian tubes attached to them, report investigators. Most -- and possibly all -- ovarian cancers start, not in ...

There is no reliable screening test for ovarian cancer, so doctors urge women at high genetic risk for the disease to have their ovaries and fallopian tubes removed once they are done having children, ...

Despite recommendations that surgeons remove fallopian tubes during hysterectomies to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, a new study from Yale University shows few women are offered that option.

As a surgeon treating patients with advanced ovarian cancer, my job has more than its fair share of bleak moments. This invidious disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose; you can’t screen for it, ...

A simple treatment known as "fallopian tube recanalization," which often needs to do little more than remove a small amount of mucus causing the blockage, could allow a higher percentage of women ...