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вторник, 14 мая 2013 г.

ANGELINA JOLIE GETS A DOUBLE MASTECTOMY AS A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE

Angelina Jolie has made a tough decision that will forever change her life. The 37-year-old actress reveals that she underwent a double mastectomy in an attempt to reduce the odds that she will get breast cancer. In a New York Times column that came out Tuesday, Jolie admits that she had the surgery back in February and the last of the follow-up procedures in April.
Jolie decided to get the surgery done because she had a high risk of getting breast cancer. "My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent," Jolie writes. "I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer." Doctors also told her that she has a 50 percent chance of getting ovarian cancer.
Brad Pitt, Jolie's partner and the father to their six children, has been extremely supportive throughout the experience. "I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive," she says. "Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries."
For Jolie, this decision stemmed from the fact that her mother Marcheline Bertrand died at 56 after a long battle against breast cancer. "My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," she says. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."
In the article, Jolie details the extremes of each procedure she had to undergo. She also discloses that she now has breast implants. But Jolie is to wary about exposing her children to the details of her situation. "It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable," she says. "They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was."
Jolie opted to write the Times article as a way to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer. "I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer," she says. "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."

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