title: Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in patients with germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2.
abstract: Women with mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 are at tremendously increased lifetime risk of both breast and BRCA-associated gynecologic (ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal) cancer. Because of limitations in the efficacy of available screening and chemopreventive approaches for women with a mutation in one of these genes, surgical risk reduction, particularly risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO), has become an important component of the management options in hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome. This article will review the rationale and efficacy of RRSO for prevention of breast and BRCA-associated gynecologic cancer. Surgical technique and methods of pathologic evaluation will be presented. Controversies regarding uterine preservation and post-RRSO hormone replacement therapy will be addressed. Considerations that may impact the appropriate timing of the procedure will be reviewed, and the potential role of RRSO in BRCA-negative hereditary breast cancer families will also be discussed.
authors.affiliation: Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, and Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. kauffn@mskcc.org
authors.forename: Noah D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Kauff
authors.forename: Richard R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Barakat
mesh_terms: D019313:BRCA1 Protein / Q000235:genetics*; D024682:BRCA2 Protein / Q000235:genetics*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D005260:Female; D019398:Genes, BRCA1; D024522:Genes, BRCA2; D018095:Germ-Line Mutation; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D010052:Ovariectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D019313:BRCA1 Protein; D024682:BRCA2 Protein