Surgical decision making in premenopausal BRCA carriers considering risk-reducing early salpingectomy or salpingo-oophorectomy: a qualitative study.
Faiza GabaShivam GoyalDalya MarksDhivya ChandrasekaranOlivia EvansSadiyah RobbaniCharlotte TysonRosa LegoodErtan SaridoganW Glenn McCluggageHelen HansonNaveena SinghD Gareth EvansUsha MenonRanjit Manchandanull nullPublished in: Journal of medical genetics (2021)
Multiple contextual factors (medical, physical, psychological, social) influence timing of risk-reducing surgeries. RRESDO offers women delaying/declining premenopausal oophorectomy, particularly those concerned about menopausal effects, a degree of ovarian cancer risk reduction while avoiding early menopause. Care of high-risk women should be centralised to centres with specialist familial gynaecological cancer risk management services to provide a better-quality, streamlined, holistic multidisciplinary approach.