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Re: HYSTERECTOMY-OVARIES: Hysterectomy: Spare Ovaries, Boost Health? New Study Results From: dr.narayan patel (anonymous@obgyn.net) Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:42:44 -0500 (CDT) Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: nay: "IDON'TKNOWWHATIT: What is it?" Previous message: bettyjones: "GYNECOLOGIC: Pain after orgasm" In reply to: Hope Waltman: "HYSTERECTOMY-OVARIES: Hysterectomy: Spare Ovaries, Boost Health? New Study Results" Next in thread: Hope Waltman: "Re: HYSTERECTOMY-OVARIES: Hysterectomy: Spare Ovaries, Boost Health? New Study Results" At Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Hope Waltman wrote: > >Hysterectomy: Spare Ovaries, Boost Health? >Ovary Removal Decreases Ovarian Cancer Risk but Increases Risk of Heart >Disease and Death, Study Says > >"For women without a strong family history of ovarian cancer or genetic >predisposition to it, these heart disease and death risks appear to >outweigh the benefit of the decreased cancer risk, says William H. >Parker, MD, the study's lead author and a gynecologic surgeon and >researcher at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John's Health >Center, Santa Monica, Calif. The study is published in the May issue of >Obstetrics & Gynecology. > >To find out, Parker and his colleagues from Harvard Medical School and >numerous other institutions tracked the health outcomes of 29,380 women >participants in the long-running Nurses' Health Study. All had a >hysterectomy for reasons other than cancer. More than half, or 16,345, >had both ovaries removed; the other 13,035 women kept their ovaries." > >http://women.webmd.com/news/20090421/hysterectomy-spare-ovaries-boost-health?src=RSS_PUBLIC > >Note: Dr. Parker is an Editorial Advisor for the OBGYN.net Fibroid >Forum. His website URL - http://www.ovaryresearch.com. > >http://www.obgyn.net/fibroid-resource-center/?page=/all_advisors/W_Parker > >Best Regards, Hope Waltman, WHF Moderator >http://www.hopeforfibroids.org It is not desiable to remove both ovaries at the time of hysterectomy for benige uterine conditions unless ovaries are pathological.The estrogen secreted by overies is one of the cause of low incidence of heart disease in ladies. We do not remove testies in man while operating for hernia or other man's disease. so why remove ovaries in women unless indicated. Dr.Narayan Patel Ahmedabad - INDIA Next message: nay: "IDON'TKNOWWHATIT: What is it?" Previous message: bettyjones: "GYNECOLOGIC: Pain after orgasm" In reply to: Hope Waltman: "HYSTERECTOMY-OVARIES: Hysterectomy: Spare Ovaries, Boost Health? New Study Results" Next in thread: Hope Waltman: "Re: HYSTERECTOMY-OVARIES: Hysterectomy: Spare Ovaries, Boost Health? New Study Results"

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