Joanna Rudnick is young, beautiful and has a promising career in filmmaking – and a ticking time bomb inside her. She was 27 years old when she received the bad news: she tested positive for a mutation in the BRCA gene, a mutation that highly predisposes her to breast and ovarian cancer, just like many [...]
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Hysterectomy is a surgical procedure wherein the uterus of a woman is removed completely. This intervention is usually performed in women with cervical cancer. About 600,000 hysterectomies are performed in the US each year and about 50% of these also include oophorectomy, which is the removal of the ovaries. The reason why surgeons tend to [...]
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