ACOG updates guidance expanding opportunistic salpingectomy for ovarian cancer prevention

ACOG has issued a Clinical Practice Update revising its prior Committee Opinion No. 774 on opportunistic salpingectomy. The update provides additional information supporting complete, bilateral salpingectomy during obstetric and gynecologic surgery, and expands recommendations to include salpingectomy during nongynecologic abdominopelvic surgery as a strategy for primary prevention of epithelial ovarian cancer.

Most relevant for: Patients undergoing obstetric, gynecologic, or nongynecologic abdominopelvic surgery who are not planning future fertility.

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