Angelina Jolie’s prophylactic mastectomy a difficult decision Angelina Jolie revealed yesterday in a New York Times op-ed article that she underwent a double mastectomy even though she doesn’t have breast cancer She did that because she carries a gene (BRCA1) that substantially increases her chances of developing the disease Her mother’s 10-year losing battle with
6 Years Have Passed Since Angelina Jolie’s Preventative Double . . . The actress Angelina Jolie’s choice to undergo a preventative double mastectomy will likely go down as one of the more remarkable moments in the history of public health and cancer prevention Six years later, during breast cancer awareness month, Jolie’s decision still has millions of women thinking about screening and genetic risk, a topic that was never part of the public conversation
Angelina Jolie Double Mastectomy: Everything You Need To Know After Angelina Jolie's brave admission that she's undergone a preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, we asked two experts to break down exactly what this means for
Angelina Jolie Speaks Out About Having a Mastectomy Angelina Jolie made headlines and shocked many as she announced that she had made the decision to have a preventive double mastectomy Jolie made the decision after being tested for a mutation of BRCA1, a tumor suppressor gene The inherited mutation greatly increases a woman’s risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer In a New York Times article, Jolie wrote, “Once I knew that this