Hollywood superstar Angelia Jolie has removed her ovaries
and fallopian tubes over concern that she is developing
ovarian cancer.
This came 2 years after she had her two breasts removed to
prevent breast cancer.
The actress, who has lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to
the disease, said she had the procedure last week after results
from a blood test raised fears that she may be in the early
stages of cancer.
Although later tests showed that wasn’t the case, Jolie said
she chose to go ahead with the surgery because of her
family history and because she carries a gene mutation that
had given her a 50 percent risk of developing ovarian
cancer, the same mutation that put her at 87 percent risk of
developing breast cancer.
“I did not do this solely because I carry the BRCA1 gene
mutation, and I want other women to hear this,” Jolie wrote in
an op-ed piece in The New York Times, the same way she
announced her double mastectomy two years ago.
“A positive BRCA test does not mean a leap to surgery,” said
Jolie, who is married to fellow Hollywood heavyweight Brad Pitt.
“In my case, the Eastern and Western doctors I met agreed that
surgery to remove my tubes and ovaries was the best option,
because on top of the BRCA gene, three women in my family
have died from cancer,” she wrote.
Her doctors said that she should have the preventive
surgery about a decade before the earliest onset of cancer
in her female relatives.
“My mother’s ovarian cancer was diagnosed when she was 49.
I’m 39.”
This surgery has put Angelina Jolie into early menopause. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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