Angelina Jolie, renowned American actress and wife of actor Brad Pitt, declared on Tuesday that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy to try to reduce the high percentage of probability of suffering from breast cancer. In the article was published by the American newspaper The New York Times, Jolie explains her reasons for having undergone […]
Angelina Jolie, renowned American actress and wife of actor Brad Pitt, declared on Tuesday that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy to try to reduce the high percentage of probability of suffering from breast cancer.
In the article published by the American newspaper The New York Times, Jolie explains her reasons for having undergone this operation. She points out that her body has a defective gene that increases her risk of cancer.
The gene is known as BRCA1 and in the body of the 37-year-old actress, it resulted in 87 percent of developing breast cancer and 50 percent of ovarian cancer.
Angelina's mother died at the age of 56 from cancer, which was one of the main reasons for undergoing this preventive double mastectomy, she stated in the journalistic text. In surgery the breast tissue was removed and replaced by temporary implants.
The actress had the support throughout the process of her husband Brad Pitt and their six children, three of whom are adopted.
Angelina Jolie laments in the New York Times because the test to detect the BRCA1 gene and another gene called BRCA2 costs around three thousand dollars in the United States, which is a great obstacle for many women around the world to have a timely diagnosis. .
