Risk-reducing surgery in women at hereditary risk of gynaecological cancer.

Abstract

Objective: To present up-to-date knowledge concerning risk-reducing surgery in carriers of susceptibility mutations among hereditary breast/ovarian cancer syndrome and Lynch syndrome.

Keywords

• hereditary breast/ovarian cancer syndrome
• hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer syndrom
• BRCA1
• BRCA2
• risk-reducing salpino-oophorectomy
• risk-reducing hysterectomy