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cancer. 21 , 22 This strategy also enables select women to defer surgery (and surgical menopause) and to preserve fertility. Prophylactic hysterectomy/bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) can then be done after childbearing is complete or sooner

Background Cervical cancer is commonly viewed as a disease affecting younger women. However, age at diagnosis follows a bimodal distribution, with peaks at 30 to 39 years and 60 to 69 years. 1 When hysterectomy is taken into account, the highest

. Prophylactic hysterectomy/bilateral salpingooophorectomy (BSO) can then be performed either after childbearing is complete or sooner, depending on patient preference. 20 , 21 In addition, interventions to decrease the risk of developing colorectal cancer may

, surgery, chemotherapy, and endocrine therapy may cause side effects during and after treatment, with sexual dysfunction among them. For instance, oophorectomy causes acute estrogen deprivation, hysterectomy may change vaginal length and size, prostate

hysterectomy . J Clin Oncol 2006 ; 24 : 123 – 128 . 20. Reinhardt MJ Ehritt-Braun C Vogelgesang D . Metastatic lymph nodes in patients with cervical cancer: detection with MR imaging and FDG PET . Radiology 2001 ; 218 : 776 – 782 . 21

;23:185–196; with permission. An alternative strategy to endometrial cancer screening is prophylactic hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. In a case-control study, Schmeler et al. 53 examined the occurrence of endometrial and ovarian cancer in

continued for several hours postoperatively. 2 , 13 For women who are older or do not wish to preserve fertility, hysterectomy can be considered as an alternative. 14 Histopathologic review and possible genetic testing confirm the diagnosis. Prophylactic

clear cell carcinoma) in the hysterectomy specimens. 36 Similarly, the undifferentiated component of a dedifferentiated carcinoma, which often lies deep to the well-differentiated component, may not be sampled in a biopsy or curettage specimen. 37 , 38

caused by surgical removal of the ovaries. The Nurses' Health Study found increased mortality (HR, 1.12; 95% CI, 1.03–1.21) among women who underwent total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) with bilateral oophorectomy (TAHBSO) compared with those who underwent

nodules suspicious for metastatic disease, and possible bony vertebral metastasis. She underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection for enlarged lymph nodes in June 2017. Final