Wanting to be child-free, these women got fallopian tube removal. The surgery may also cut ovarian cancer risk
Surgery to remove the fallopian tubes as a permanent method of birth control could also reduce a woman's risk of the most common ovarian cancer, but a group of B.C. researchers and physicians say the procedure isn't widely known across Canada and they are trying to change that.
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