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Removing the ovaries (prophylactic oophorectomy) does not completely eliminate the risk of ovarian cancer because women can still develop primary peritoneal cancer that behaves like ovarian cancer.Representative image · Pexels

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Removing the ovaries (prophylactic oophorectomy) does not completely eliminate the risk of ovarian cancer because women can still develop primary peritoneal cancer that behaves like ovarian cancer.

Reported by Siddharth Deshmukh (Staff Writer) · Hindustan Times - Health ·