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Posted on December 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Updated Saturday, Dec 5 at 4:45 PM
Surgery for ovarian cancer used to mean a total hysterectomy.
But now doctors from New York's Columbia University say women in early stages of ovarian cancer can keep at least one of their ovaries or their uterus without increasing their chance of dying.
That could make all the difference to women who still want to have babies after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Although most tumors are found in older women, 17 percent are found in women under 40 years of age. Janet Choi reports.
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