To keep my ovarires or not - that is the question

Having supra cervical laparoscopic and was told by a good friend to consider letting them remove my ovaries too. She explained that she kept hers during surgery and had cancer shortly after. I had an abnormal pap smear over 20 years ago, but none recently. Any thoughts?

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