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In high-risk patients (BRCA, Lynch syndrome), we can do prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy after the age of 35.
In high-risk patients (BRCA, Lynch syndrome), we can do prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy after the age of 35.
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== Management ==
== Management ==
Most patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma are treated by surgical removal or cytoreduction followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. Borderline tumours are managed like malignant epithelial tumours.
Most patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma are treated by surgical removal or cytoreduction followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. Borderline tumours are managed like malignant epithelial tumours.
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=== Radiotherapy ===
=== Radiotherapy ===
Radiotherapy is not part of the standard management of ovarian cancer, but it may be used on a palliative indication for recurrent or metastatic ovarian cancer.
Radiotherapy is not part of the standard management of ovarian cancer, but it may be used on a palliative indication for recurrent or metastatic ovarian cancer.<section end="borderline" />


=== Germ cell tumours ===
=== Germ cell tumours ===