Sexual reproduction keeps many species alive. In humans, male and female reproductive systems look very different, though. The female reproductive system has many unique parts, including the ovaries, ...

Women can go into menopause after cancer treatment or surgery. The timing and severity of symptoms can differ from natural ...

Fertility loss or infertility in women means you’re unable to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term. Your cancer treatments may damage or remove reproductive organs like your ovaries or uterus, damage ...

It is clear that the ovaries should not be removed unless pathologic changes are detected; women whose ovaries are removed will require hormonal substitution therapy. The issue of whether the uterus ...

Ovaries are fig-shaped glands that lie on either side of the uterus and are crucial to a woman’s reproductive system—and have other important roles in the body as well. Here’s everything a woman needs ...

Lindsay Avner, 36, was just six months postpartum when she had her ovaries and uterus removed. She was just starting to emerge from the confusing, all-consuming fog of postpartum depression, and when ...

The female reproductive system is the internal and external organs involved in fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth in people assigned female at birth. This group of organs is responsible ...

The most common type of gynecologic cancer in the U.S. has been on the rise in recent years — and there’s no standard screening for it. Uterine cancer will affect about 66,200 women in 2023 in the U.S ...

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) affects a woman’s reproductive hormones. This imbalance in hormones causes irregular menstrual cycles (periods) and may make it difficult to become pregnant. One in ...

A 25-year-old woman who lost her ovaries, uterus and toes after her IUD forced its way up into her stomach and migrated over to her liver said her faith in God has helped her recover. “Sometimes ...

Gynecologic oncologists at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center are experts in the treatment of ovarian cancer. Our team is at the forefront of innovative ...

Researchers say that in the course of developing a new model for ovarian cancer, they've developed additional evidence that serous uterine cancer possibly begins in the fallopian tubes, not the uterus ...