The surprising link between ovarian cancer and the fallopian tubes - Harvard Health
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Medicine has long named cancers for where they originate. But that practice may be tipped on its head (in at least one instance) by mounting evidence that most cases of ovarian cancer actually start not in the ovary, but in the nearby fallopian tube.
This surprising shift in understanding began to take shape in recent years as scientists increasingly found precancerous lesions in the fallopian tubes — especially the finger-like projections known as fimbriae — when they examined tubes removed from women at high genetic risk of ovarian cancer. The disease is diagnosed in 21,000 women each year and kills more than 12,000, according to the American Cancer Society.
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