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Jane Kirby and Bill McLoughlin

Medical first at London hospital as four women undergo dual Caesarean and ovary surgery

Surgeons have performed simultaneous Caesarean sections with ovary and fallopian tube removal in women at high risk of developing cancer.

The operations on four women, reported by University College London Hospital and published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, mean women with inherited faulty genes do not need to undergo separate surgery to remove their fallopian tubes and ovaries.

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