Journal article
Improved quality of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in Australasian women at high risk of pelvic serous cancer
YC Lee, M Bressel, P Grant, P Russell, C Smith, S Picken, S Camm, BE Kiely, RL Milne, SA McLachlan, M Hickey, ML Friedlander, JL Hopper, KA Phillips
Familial Cancer | SPRINGER | Published : 2017
Abstract
Objectives: The quality of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) performed in Australasian women was previously reported to be suboptimal. Here we describe the quality of RRSO performed since 2008 in women enrolled in the same cohort and determine whether it has improved. Design: Prospective cohort study of women at high risk of pelvic serous cancer (PSC) in kConFab. Eligible women had RRSO between 2008 and 2014 and their RRSO surgical and pathology reports were reviewed. “Adequate” surgery and pathology were defined as complete removal and paraffin embedding of all ovarian and extra-uterine fallopian tube tissue, respectively. Associations between clinical factors and “adequate” pathol..
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YC Lee is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. KA Phillips is an Australian National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) Practitioner Fellow. M Hickey is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow. kConFab is supported by a grant from the National Breast Cancer Foundation, and previously by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Queensland Cancer Fund, the Cancer Councils of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, and the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia. We wish to thank Heather Thorne, Eveline Niedermayr, all the kConFab research nurses and staff, the heads and staff of the Family Cancer Clinics, and the Clinical Follow-Up Study [which has received funding from the NHMRC, the NBCF, Cancer Australia, and the National Institute of Health (USA)] for their contributions to this resource, and the many families who contribute to kConFab.