Should risk-reducing oophorectomy (ovary removal) also include hysterectomy in women who carry the BRCA gene? Gene carriers are known to have an excess risk of ovarian cancer and so many undergo preventative ovarian surgery but what about the uterus? Is there a risk to leaving it behind in carriers of a BRCA gene mutation? This is not a big literature but this must be a question that arises not infrequently.