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Angelina Jolie undergoes Double Mastectomy

Angelina Jolie undergoes Double Mastectomy

Angelina Jolie undergoes Double MastectomyActress Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed article on Tuesday that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carries the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

“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.”

Jolie’s mother Marcheline Bertrand died of breast cancer in 2007 at the age of 56.

Source: CNN

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