Hysterectomy doesn’t mitigate ovarian cancer risk in Black women with endometriosis, Fred Hutch study shows

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A Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center study, published in Obstetrics & Gynecology,investigated how endometriosis, uterine leiomyomas (also known as fibroids), and a common intervention for these conditions—hysterectomy—changed ovarian cancer risk in Black and white women.

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