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Preview- One can recognize, if you have a high jeopardy of breast (i.e., mamma, or teat) and ovarian cancer, prophylactic oophorectomy (i.e., ovariectomy) might make you feel better about your future because it can significantly reduce your risk. Ovarian, having to do with the ovaries, the female reproductive glands in which the ova (eggs) are formed. The ovaries are located in the pelvis, one on each side of the uterus (i.e., metra, or womb). Oophorectomy, surgery to remove one or both ovaries. Breast, glandular (i.e., glandulous) organ located on the chest (i.e., pectus). The breast is made up of connective tissue (i.e., interstitial tissue, or supporting tissue), fat, and breast tissue that contains the glands that can make milk (i.e., strip, or lac). Also called mammary gland (i.e., glandula mammaria, or lactiferous gland). Prophylactic oophorectomy, surgery intended to reduce the risk of ovarian malignant neoplastic disease by removing the ovaries before disease develops. Surgery is a procedure to remove or repair a part of the body or to find out whether disease is present. An operation. Ovarian cancer, cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary (i.e., ovarium, or female gonad) (one of a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, are formed). Most ovarian cancers are either ovarian epithelial carcinomas (cancer that begins in the cells on the surface (i.e., face, or facies) of the ovary) or malignant germ cell (i.e., sex cell) tumors (cancer that begins in egg cells).
- It would seem to be apparant that, women who are at high risk of bosom cancer who may wish to consider prophylactic mastectomy (i.e., mammectomy) after weighing other preventive options for breast cancer include. Mastectomy, surgery to remove part or all of the breast. There are different types of mastectomy that differ in the amount of tissue and lymph nodes removed. Preventive, used to prevent disease. Breast cancer, cancer that forms in tissues of the breast, usually the ducts (tubes that carry milk to the nipple (i.e., papilla mammae, or mammilla)) and lobules (glands that make milk). It occurs in both men and women, although male breast (i.e., mamma masculina, or mamma virilis) cancer is rare. Prophylactic mastectomy, surgery to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by removing one or both breasts before disease develops. Also called preventive mastectomy.
- It seems that, if you`re at high risk of breast cancer and you decide against prophylactic mastectomy, you do have other options.
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