MEDICAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION OF PRIMARY MEDICAL PREVENTION OF OVARIAN CANCER (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE GRODNO REGION

Primary prevention of ovarian cancer has strategic and medico-social significance. The article presents the results of a clinical and economic analysis of the effectiveness of primary surgical prevention of ovarian cancer in healthy women from the high-risk group - carriers of a germinal mutation in the BRCA1 gene. The results obtained on the example of the Grodno region indicate that the timely use of risk-reducing surgery allows not only to avoid the development of ovarian cancer, preserve the quality of life, but also significantly reduce the financial costs of the healthcare system.