A simple procedure during routine surgery could prevent thousands of Australian women from getting ovarian cancer.

Research now shows that 65 per cent of ovarian cancers begin in the fallopian tubes and then spread to the ovaries.

Removing the fallopian tubes can dramatically reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.

Now there is a push for Australian women to be routinely offered fallopian tube removal while having another operation in their lower abdomen.

Associate Professor Orla McNally, from the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, is leading efforts to make opportunistic salpingectomy routine in Australia.

“From published research, it’s been established that 65 per cent of ovarian cancers probably start in the fallopian tubes and, in particular, the type of cancer that is usually aggres

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