Angelina Jolie Has Ovaries Removed!!!
Angelina Jolie continues her quest to prevent having cancer. The super star actress, director and humanitarian, Angelina Jolie Has Ovaries Removed just two years after her double mastectomy.
CelebNMusic247.com has learned via Yahoo that Angelina is all about preventative care to rid the chances of suffering from cancer. We understand, because our mother had cancer a few years ago, she was blessed to become a survivor of peritoneal cancer, a very rare form of cancer, which is like ovarian cancer, but attacks the stomach lining. We says this because after she went through chemo, She had to be tested to see if cancer is hereditary, and if so then we would be subject to cancer. We would end up doing preventative care like Angelina, whose mother died at 56 from the disease.
Angelina, 39, unfortunately carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that increases her risk for both types of cancer, said she went public with her decision so women would know about options available to them.
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Jolie wrote:
“I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt.”
“I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn’t live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.”
The surgery showed no signs of cancer, she said, but it triggered early menopause, and she will not be able to have more children.
She and Brad Pitt share six children said in an op-ed column in the New York Times on Tuesday that she had the surgery last week after blood tests showed what could have been early signs of the disease.
This second public revelation by one of the biggest names in Hollywood prompted a new round of praise from cancer specialists for increasing awareness about genetic testing and prophylactic surgery to reduce the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Jolie, who travels the globe as a United Nations ambassador for refugees, adds:
“I feel feminine, and grounded in the choices I am making for myself and my family.”
“I know my children will never have to say, ‘Mom died of ovarian cancer.'”
Research showed that her 2013 decision to have a double mastectomy to cut her risk of breast cancer increased demand for genetic testing in what was dubbed the “Angelina Effect.”
Dr. Robert DeBernardo, a gynecologic oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic’s Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health Institute had this to say:
“My hat is off to her…She is doing a lot of good for women worldwide by raising awareness of BRCA testing and options women have.”
