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You have unique needs that your gyno can address, and knowing your family history is an important part of having optimal medical care. Although gathering facts from distant family members can be time consuming, and need updating regularly a relatively new tool from the government can help you keep these facts as current as possible. In the past we talked about individualizing care, but the newest buzz word is to "personalize" your care. This may then determine what conditions you are at most risk for, what tests you need, which tests you need to avoid, and what medicines will work better in your case. So if you haven't tried this tool, check it out, Family History is important, and this tool makes it easy to gather and to track. 

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...