Woody Wood
Jim Chandler
Angelina Jolie had both her breasts removed and then recontructed because a genetic test determined she had an 87% chance of getting breast cancer.
She said she wanted it done because her mother died of ovarian cancer at age 56. She wrote about it in first person for the New York Times.
“I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made,” she wrote. “My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.”
Angelina is 37, has 6 children who worried that she might die like thier grandmother in 2007.
“I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer,” Angelina wrote. The reason she wrote about it... " “because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.”
The problem for most women not as well off as Jolie, is that the tests in the US can cost $3,000.
She also emphasized “On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman,” she wrote. “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”
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