A 5% complication rate during salpingectomy could negate public health benefits of reducing ovarian cancer. — Whalespan
A 5% complication rate during salpingectomy could negate public health benefits of reducing ovarian cancer.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“if you make a broad recommendation for every woman who's done having kids to come in and have this done what if one in 20 surgeons is going to have a complication rate of 5% you've cancelled out all the public health benefit of reducing ovarian cancer”
“what is the probability um of taking out the fallopian tube and damaging an ovary such that a woman ultimately needs an ectomy as well which would be a disaster an absolute disaster for a woman to lose her ovaries if she's premenopausal and still relying on those for hormones”