Prophylactic risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA mutation carriers: what is going on in a region of northern Italy?

•Breast cancer survivors underwent risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy at a younger age.•The temporal trend for the age distribution of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy was similar for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.•All diagnoses of ovarian invasive cancer were made for BRCA1 or BRCA-combined subjects.•Abnormal tubal findings were mainly found by pathologists in university hospitals.•In none of the few women who underwent concomitant or subsequent hysterectomies was a primitive uterine endometrioid or serous cancer found.