Sultry actress, Angelina Jolie shocked the world when she announced in
a New York op-ed article that she recently underwent a preventive
double masectomy. Masectomy is the surgical partial or total removal of
breasts. Jolie said she had to do it after learning that she carried the
BRCA1 gene which would increase her risks of ovarian and breast cancer.
Jolie’s mother Marcheline Bertrand died of breast cancer in 2007 at the
age of 56.
In her words:
“My doctors estimated that I had an 87
percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer,
although the risk is different in the case of each woman,” Jolie wrote.
“Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to
minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a
preventive double mastectomy.
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