Angelina Jolie Cancer Surgery: Actress To Have Another Procedure To Prevent Disease Posted: 03/13/2014 3:17 am EDT Updated: 03/13/2014 11:59 am EDT Angelina Jolie has revealed she is to undergo further surgery to prevent cancer. Last year, the 38-year-old actress had a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery after being told she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer because she carries the BRCA1 gene. And now, Jolie says she needs another operation. Theres still another surgery to have, which I havent yet. Ill get advice from all these wonderful people who Ive been talking to, to get through that next stage, she told Entertainment Weekly. I was very fortunate to have great doctors and very, very fortunate to have a good recovery and have a project like Unbroken to have something to be really focused on, to be getting healthy for, and to be able to just get right back to work, she added. I was very, very moved by all the support and kindness from so many people. The mother of six, who lost her mother and aunt to breast cancer, previously detailed her experience in a New York Times op-ed titled My Medical Choice. “Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could,” she wrote. “I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:26:59 +0000
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