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This procedure is done if you have cancer in the ovaries or fallopian tubes. Or you may have it to lower your risk for cancer in these parts of the body. You may be at high risk if you have a family member who had ovarian or breast cancer. You may also have a mutation in the breast cancer susceptibility (BRCA) genes. These are genes that make tumor suppressor proteins. If these genes are mutated, they do not work as they should and cells are more likely to develop cancer.

This procedure may also be done at the time you have your uterus removed. This is called a hysterectomy.  Other health problems may call for taking out the ovaries and fallopian tubes at the same time and may include pelvic pain, infection, or ovarian cysts

You will check into a hospital. You may need to spend a few days there after this surgery. During the procedure:

• You are given medicine to make you fall asleep. You won’t feel any pain.

• The surgeon may make a cut in your belly to reach the reproductive organs, or he or she may make 2 or 3 small incisions in which laparocopic instruments are inserted to reach the reproductive organs.

• The surgeon removes your ovaries and fallopian tubes.

• The surgeon then ties and stitches up all open wounds. The cut in the abdomen is closed up.

• Bleeding

• Infection

• Injury to the bladder

• Injury to the intestines

• Risks linked to early menopause, such as heart disease and bone loss