Angelina Jolie To Have Cancer Prevention Surgery
The Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie made headlines around the globe previous year after she declared she’d had a anticipatory double mastectomy in a New York Times op-ed.
Less than a year after marking a disclosing op-ed in the New York Times regarding her choice to undergo a preventative double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie has exposed that she plans to have extra cancer-prevention surgery.
Last May, beautiful Jolie wrote that she’d checked positive for the breast-cancer-narrated BRCA1 gene, denoting she had a shocking 87 percent possibility of increasing the disease. Jolie said that, “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.” Doctors said the surgery decreased her risk of increasing breast cancer to just 5 percent.
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