Oopherectomy and possible increase in colorectal cancers.

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wallycat
wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
edited August 2016 in Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results

http://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-sp...


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  • ElaineTherese
    ElaineTherese Member Posts: 3,328
    edited August 2016

    Thanks for posting, wallycat. Now I know why my OB/GYN advised me to keep my ovaries even though I would need ovulation suppression for a few years.

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2016

    I really hate to read this since both my Dad's mom & sister had colon cancer. I didn't have any choice with ovarian cancer. I am several genes negative on testing

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  • Icietla
    Icietla Member Posts: 1,265
    edited August 2016

    That conclusion was only as to women who had oophorectomy for benign indications. Here is a link to an abstract of the study report to which the Dr. Weil site refers:

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.10143/abstract


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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2016

    I read the study. Just because they happened to have them out when they didn't have cancer doesn't mean that the same doesn't follow for oophoerectomy for other reasons

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited August 2016

    It also indicated that the risk is highest the first 4 years. So it isn't at an all time high your whole life. We know cancer is a crapshoot.

    "They" also say that breast cancer has "sister" cancers which to me means a lot of this is genetic, whether they know which genes are causing these things or not. Melissa, you made a life saving choice. You certainly have no cause to second guess that decision. My twin had a radical hysterectomy because they thought she had a malignancy. She did not. She is on year 4 and nothing sinister going on so far. Mantra: it is all a crapshoot.

    Remember how many of us should never have gotten breast cancer if we followed the statistics/rates "they" suggest.


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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2016

    I know. Some day whatever genetic thing is going on in my family will be identified. Daddy is growing really big polyps very rapidly as well. Despite the alarm of my PCP when I was diagnosed with LCIS so shortly after the mucinous ovarian cancer the geneticist says mucinous ovarian cancer is not a known risk factor for breast cancer. Maybe because it is so rare they don't know? It is all interesting but still a big unknown at this point. I'll probably drop dead of a heart attack instead..

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited August 2016

    LOL, I say the same thing...the stress of all this may kill me before anything else....

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2016

    Seriously. We all, I think, when faced with other intersting stuff, tend to ignore our prosaic family history in favor of the other more interesting stuff. Lots of cardiovascular history there as well....

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