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 done 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. 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." Read more http://www.hollywood.com/news/celebrities/55013652/angelina-jolie-double-mastectomy
Christina Applegate did the same thing. I think they're the two most famous women who've had this sort of procedure done. It sure takes a lot of guts to submit to such barbaric procedures and have your body parts hacked off. And that this is preventative and not because she already has the cancer. We can hope that medical science some day figures out a way to combat the problem without procedures reminiscent of blood letting.
