
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 15, 1993                   TAG: 9312150205
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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TUBAL LIGATION LINKED TO LOWER CANCER RISK

In research that finds a surprising health benefit to tubal ligation, a new study shows that women who have been sterilized by having their "tubes tied" are substantially less likely than other women to develop ovarian cancer.

By following more than 77,500 women over a 12-year period, epidemiologists at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital found that those who had surgery to sever their fallopian tubes were 67 percent less likely than other women to contract cancer of the ovaries. The researchers also found that hysterectomies seemed to prevent ovarian cancer, although to a lesser extent.

- Los Angeles Times

by CNB