What Is Estrogen Dominance?

Surgery

Doctors may recommend surgery for patients who have estrogen-sensitive cancer. An oophorectomy is the most commonly recommended procedure, and it involves the removal of the ovaries. Removing the ovaries lowers the body's estrogen levels because the ovaries produce the majority of the body's estrogen. This procedure leads to surgical menopause, otherwise known as menopause caused by a surgical procedure. Patients who have a high risk of developing ovarian or breast cancer may want to undergo a preemptive oophorectomy to lower their chances of getting cancer. When patients are at a very high risk of developing breast cancer, studies show the removal of both ovaries reduces that risk by around fifty percent.

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