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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