Angelina Jolie’s Preventive Surgery

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Angelina Jolie’s essay about her choice to undergo a double mastectomy upon learning of her genetic risk was brave and generous. She writes straightforwardly, without a trace of self-pity, about her decision, which was obviously fraught and difficult on many levels. What rings through loudest is her commitment to her children, to be alive for them many years into the future.

That someone of her stature and visibility volunteers the information about her decision may remove some of the fear and stigma women might associate with such a dilemma. She has my admiration and gratitude for her courage and honesty.
It is very important for women to think about what they will do with the information they receive if they have the BRCA test to determine if they carry the gene that increases their risk of getting breast and ovarian cancer.

Though not knowing one’s genetic fate creates tremendous anxiety for any woman who has lost a close relative to breast cancer, knowing creates another dilemma: can she live without her breasts? If she can’t, then she must decide if knowing is better than not knowing.

DEBRA KUPPERSMITH

Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., May 14, 2013

The writer is a psychoanalyst.

To the Editor:

I admire Angelina Jolie, and think it’s great that she’s encouraging other women to get the test. But let’s not forget that about 50 million people don’t have health insurance, and the .

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    Angelina Jolie’s essay about her choice to undergo a double mastectomy upon learning of her genetic risk was brave and generous. She writes straightforwardly, without a trace of self-pity, about her decision, which was obviously fraught and difficult on many levels. What rings through loudest is her commitment to her children, to be alive for them many years into the future.

    That someone of her stature and visibility volunteers the information about her decision may remove some of the fear and stigma women might associate with such a dilemma. She has my admiration and gratitude for her courage and honesty.
    It is very important for women to think about what they will do with the information they receive if they have the BRCA test to determine if they carry the gene that increases their risk of getting breast and ovarian cancer.

    Though not knowing one’s genetic fate creates tremendous anxiety for any woman who has lost a close relative to breast cancer, knowing creates another dilemma: can she live without her breasts? If she can’t, then she must decide if knowing is better than not knowing.

    DEBRA KUPPERSMITH

    Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., May 14, 2013

    The writer is a psychoanalyst.

    To the Editor:

    I admire Angelina Jolie, and think it’s great that she’s encouraging other women to get the test. But let’s not forget that about 50 million people don’t have health insurance, and the

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    Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.

    The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for Tuesday's New York Times under the headline, “My Medical Choice.” She writes that between early February and late April she completed three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts.

    Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother die too young from breast cancer.

    “My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56,” Jolie writes. “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.”

    She writes that, “They have asked if the same could happen to me.”
    Jolie said that after genetic testing she learned she carries the “faulty” BRCA1 gene and had an 87 percent chance of getting the disease herself.

    She said she has kept the process private so far, but wrote about with hopes of helping other women.

    “I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made,” Jolie writes. “My chances of developing breast canc

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    Angelina Jolie has revealed she has had a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer, and has gone public with the news to raise awareness.

    The actor has a defective gene, BRCA1, which significantly increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer, she writes in the New York Times. The latter disease killed her mother at the age of 56.

    Jolie says she chose not to keep the decision private in the hope that other women would get gene-tested. 'Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk,' she says.

    Women with a defect in BRCA1 have on average a 65% risk of developing breast cancer. Jolie says her doctors told her that her risk was 87% and that surgery had reduced it to 5%. The defect also increases the risk of ovarian cancer, which Jolie says doctors estimate is 50% for her.

    The 37-year-old, who has six children – three by Brad Pitt and three adopted – finished three months of medical procedures on 27 April. She says she first had 'nipple delay' to maximise the chances of saving her nipples, before breast tissue removal and, nine weeks later, reconstruction. Pitt was by her side for 'every minute of the surgeries', she said.

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    In a New York Times op-ed published late Monday, the 37-year-old Academy Award winner writes that after genetic testing she learned she carries the 'faulty' BRCA1 gene.
    The risk of developing cancer due to the gene varies, but Jolie says doctors estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.
    Jolie — whose mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, died from cancer — says she decided to have the preventive mastectomy to be 'proactive' for the sake of her six children with her partner, Brad Pitt.
    'My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56,' Jolie writes. '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.'
    Jolie said she has kept the process private so far, but wrote about with hopes of helping other women.
    'I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy,' she writes. 'But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need

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