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Women having hysterectomy are often faced with a question: do you keep your ovaries or remove the ovaries, and a further question, do you remove just one? But researchers from the British Columbia Cancer Agency in 2013 have found some research that puts women in a position to keep their ovaries, and still have a surgical solution that will reduce their lifetime chances of ever getting ovarian cancer! Worldwide there are over 200,000 cases of ovarian cancer each year, there are about 14,000 cases in the USA alone. Ovarian cancer is a deadly disease and each year about 140,000 women die of the disease. Of ovarian cancer cases over 10,000 American Women will die of their disease. but getting one's ovaries out is a big decision. Removing both ovaries reduces your chance of ovarian cancer by about 98%. Removing one ovary according to a National Institute of Health study headed by John Chan MD in 2014, did reduce your chances of ovarian cancer by about half. Since we do over 500,000 h...

Tubal Pregnancies Can Be Secondary To Chlamydia infections If your gyno calls and says that you have tested positive for the STD chlamydia (CT). First ask if you were tested for gonorrhea (GC) too, you probably were. Most gynos will treat you for both if you test positive for either GC or CT but it's important to know if you did have that test, because you need it as well if you have a chlamydia infection. Just two days ago the CDC published new gonorrhea treatment guidelines  . Both these infections need to be treated effectively to both prevent spread to sexual partners and because they both are important causes of pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women. For the best gonorrhea treatment you may to have a shot of antibiotics, and for chlamydia often just a few pills will be enough to treat the infection. Because the treatments are so effective we don't need to test you right after the treatment, but in a few months, go and get checked again to make sur...

Women and men who have the STD Chlamydia often have no symptoms at all, which is why testing is such an important component of prevention and treatment. There are a wide variety of catchable diseases we may not know we have. Asymptomatic infections in fact were not known until Typhoid Mary became the first famous individual who was known to be carrier of a deadly disease but actually well herself. We have panels of tests we use, but an organism called mycoplasma is popping up so frequently researchers out of Sweden have discovered it's almost as common as chlamydia. This bug can cause infections of your fallopian tubes known as salpingitis or pelvic inflammatory disease (PID); mycoplasma can also cause infections of the cervix called cervicitis, or infections associated with pregnancy such as infection after termination, delivery or miscarriage. Both the consequence of pelvic pain, any association with miscarriage, and infertility can be prevented if caught in the early stag...

Hysterectomy refers to the removal of the uterus for pain, bleeding, uterine fibroids or endometriosis. When to perform a hysterectomy, who to have your surgery with, and what type of surgery to have is of ongoing discussion. Whether the hysterectomy is done through an abdominal incision ( abdominal hysterectomy ), through the vagina ( vaginal hysterectomy ), the terms that determine the extent of the hysterectomy are the same. If the cervix is retained it is referred to as a supracervical hysterectomy. If the ovaries are removed it is referred to as an oophorectomy, and if the fallopian tubes are removed it is called a salpingectomy . So a removal of all the pelvic structures is called a complete hysterectomy would be a hysterectomy plus a bilateral (both sides) total hysterectomy with bilateral salpinoophorectomy . The type that is best for you will vary by surgeon selection. Using a laparoscope or a procedure called laparoscopy , the hysterectomy itself is the Lapar...