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. 2023 Nov;130(12):1437-1450.
doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17511. Epub 2023 May 2.

Care after premenopausal risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in high-risk women: Scoping review and international consensus recommendations

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Care after premenopausal risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in high-risk women: Scoping review and international consensus recommendations

Denise R Nebgen et al. BJOG. 2023 Nov.

Abstract

Women at high inherited risk of ovarian cancer are offered risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) from age 35 to 45 years. Although potentially life-saving, RRSO may induce symptoms that negatively affect quality of life and impair long-term health. Clinical care following RRSO is often suboptimal. This scoping review describes how RRSO affects short- and long-term health and provides evidence-based international consensus recommendations for care from preoperative counselling to long-term disease prevention. This includes the efficacy and safety of hormonal and non-hormonal treatments for vasomotor symptoms, sleep disturbance and sexual dysfunction and effective approaches to prevent bone and cardiovascular disease.

Keywords: BRCA1; BRCA2; early menopause; hormone replacement therapy; hot flushes; ovarian cancer; risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy; sexual function; surgical menopause.

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Figure 2. Management of problematic menopausal symptoms using non-hormonal treatment.

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