PURPOSE: To review the published literature on the efficacy and adverse effects of
prophylactic mastectomy (PM) and prophylactic oophorectomy (PO) in women with a …

Women who have a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes have up to an 87% lifetime risk
of breast cancer and up to a 40% lifetime risk of ovarian cancer. Cancer prevention and …

The individual has never been more important in society-in almost every sphere of public
and private life, the individual is sovereign. Yet the importance and apparent power …

This textbook aims to provide students with a stimulating alternative to the textbooks
currently available by placing the discipline within the context of the social world and …

Purpose Recommendations for women at high risk of ovarian cancer include periodic
gynecologic screening (GS) and prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (PBSO). The …

Breast cancer rarely occurs in women below the age of 35 years. Data from various sources
indicate that diagnosis at such an age is associated with a dire prognosis mainly because of …

OBJECTIVES: Women at risk for ovarian cancer may consider risk-reducing salpingo-
oophorectomy (RRSO), and desire information regarding the health consequences of the …

This critical examination of theories of reflexive modernity with respect to the new human
genetics draws on a range of empirical studies and conceptual critiques. In it we explore the …

In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a
“draft” of the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion base pairs of …

Purpose: Despite the widespread availability of genetic testing for BRCA1/BRCA2
mutations, little is known about the impact of testing on ovarian cancer prevention and …