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Ovarian cancer: identifying and managing familial and genetic risk

  • NICE guideline
  • Reference number: NG241
  • Published:  21 March 2024
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Evidence reviews – March 2024

The following documents contain the evidence that was used to develop the 2024 recommendations:

  • Information and support
  • Support interventions
  • Configuration of services
  • Optimal methods of assessing the probability of having a pathogenic variant
  • Optimal methods of assessing the absolute risk of having a pathogenic variant
  • Carrier probability – any person
  • Carrier probability – family history of a syndrome
  • Populations with high prevalence
  • Carrier probability – people with ovarian cancer
  • Which genes to include in gene panel testing
  • Benefits and risks of surveillance
  • Methods of surveillance
  • Preventive medicines
  • Risk-reducing surgery
  • Pathology protocol
  • Hormone replacement therapy after risk-reducing surgery

Other supporting evidence

  • Supplement 1: Methods
  • Supplement 2: Economic literature

This page was last updated: 21 March 2024

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