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Do you routinely recommend completion hysterectomy with contralateral salpingo-oophorectomy for patients with a history of fertility-sparing staging for borderline tumor of the ovary who have since completed childbearing?

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Do you routinely recommend completion hysterectomy with contralateral salpingo-oophorectomy for patients with a history of fertility-sparing staging for borderline tumor of the ovary who have since completed childbearing?

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Gynecologic Oncology · Froedtert Hospital, Medical College of Wisconsin
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Borderline ovarian tumors, also known as atypical proliferative tumors by WHO classification, account for about 10-20% of epithelial ovarian tumors, have histologic subtypes similar to invasive ovarian cancer, and are characterized pathologically by a high degree of proliferation of the epithelial c...

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Gynecologic Oncology · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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I agree that I do not routinely recommend completion surgery in a patient who previously had a borderline tumor and underwent fertility-sparing surgery. If a patient in this scenario has a future recurrence of borderline tumor and has since completed childbearing, then I would discuss and offer comp...

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