Two years after her double mastectomy, Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has undergone another preventive operation to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes.
The 39-year-old actress, who lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer and carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, wrote in a piece to the New York Times that she was planning the surgery for some time.
The gene mutation gives Jolie an estimated 87 per cent risk of breast cancer and 50 per cent risk of ovarian cancer. “I had been planning this for some time.
It is a less complex surgery than the mastectomy,
but its effects are more severe. It puts
a woman into forced menopause.
So I was readying myself physically and emotionally, discussing options with doctors, researching alternative medicine, and mapping my hormones for estrogen
or progesterone replacement. But I felt I still had months to make the date,” Jolie wrote.
The 39-year-old actress, who lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer and carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, wrote in a piece to the New York Times that she was planning the surgery for some time.
The gene mutation gives Jolie an estimated 87 per cent risk of breast cancer and 50 per cent risk of ovarian cancer. “I had been planning this for some time.
It is a less complex surgery than the mastectomy,
but its effects are more severe. It puts
a woman into forced menopause.
So I was readying myself physically and emotionally, discussing options with doctors, researching alternative medicine, and mapping my hormones for estrogen
or progesterone replacement. But I felt I still had months to make the date,” Jolie wrote.
