8 things you need to know about removing your Ovaries to prevent cancer

1. “The risk of getting ovarian cancer before 40 with a mutation in the BRCA1 gene is quite small,”Dr. Waggoner says. “It averages a few percent.” And in fact, not every woman with that genetic mutation is destined to get ovarian cancer. “Most would not,” he says.

2. On the other hand, we still have no proven way to detect ovarian cancer at a stage where it can be reliably cured.