It's me again, the cataract question person, with a question about elective oophorectomy

[Susan Calvin]

8. It's not a hysterectomy.

My new gynecologist actually does not recommend that, because it is a more major operation, and your uterus will give signs if there is cancer. Ovaries don't until it's advanced. What she's recommending is having my ovaries and Fallopian tubes out, and I've already determined Medicare and Tricare will not pay for that on a preventive basis. My BRCA, and several other tests they did at the same time, came back absolutely clean, so that is nice. However, my new gynecologist still thinks they should come out due to the fact that they don't announce cancer until it's pretty far advanced and ovarian cancer is actually fairly common and all my mom's sisters had female cancer of one type or another, although my mom didn't.