Posted on 03/24/2015 8:21:02 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Two years after she underwent a double mastectomy to cut her cancer risk, actress and U.N. envoy Angelina Jolie has had surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes for the same reason, she wrote in The New York Times on Tuesday.
Jolie, 39, carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Her mother was diagnosed with the latter at age 49 and died seven years later.
In her New York Times op-ed Tuesday, Jolie said she had been planning the latest preventive surgery for some time.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I htoguht she did this years ago? Or did she have her breasts removed to cut risk of breast cancer?
She will end up dead at some point in time.
She is still nuts
It’s her life and it’s her money. I have absolutely no issue with this.
That is pure fembot hype
Not grounded in fact
It’s the global warming hoax of women’s health
Foisted by lesbians with little need of female hormones to start with
They actually pushed the notion of heart attacks even more
A very political study
I’ll explain if u want
I cannot think of a thing to add to your post—I agree wholeheartedly.
Back in the day, I remember the late Betty Ford being just excoriated for mentioning (in media) she had breast cancer. It was something that just wasn’t talked about in public. How many MILLLIONS of women lives have now been saved due to Mrs Ford doing the initial heavy lifting?
Awareness is every thing. Kudos to AJ for speaking out.
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Correct.
Its a numbers game. 40% of women with her mutation will get ovarian cancer while 70%+ will get breast cancer. She did the smart thing.
I truly respect her statement and going public. No doubt that her openness will save lives.
When the wind blows she must whistle like an empty coke bottle.
Angelina Jolie is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
She’s just doing her brainwashed part to carry out the agendas of our elite nwo friends.
My aunt was a 30+ year breast cancer survivor.
The primary “treatments” prescribed by new world order’s bloodthirsty medical industry are the same medieval treatments available when she was first diagnosed; radiation and “chemotherapy”.
NWO is having fun for over a century now playing with the poisons of radiation and “chemotherapy” as a “medicine”, while they make sure that their medical research industry turns up no significant information about how do do anything silly like find root causes and actual real, healthy solutions to them.
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If their families have a history of cancer at a young age, the insurance company will pay for genetics testing. If a woman tests positive for BRCA1 or BRCA2, she's considered high risk for ovarian cancer, too, and the insurance company will pay for preventive surgery to remove the ovaries.
Believe me, she didn't make this decision lightly. An oophorectomy can be a quick surgery with an easy recovery, but the ovaries offer many benefits, such as protecting against heart disease. To remove them is a big decision.
But ovarian cancer is very sneaky, hard to catch at an early stage, and that's why some women have this surgery.
COUNTrecount posted a link to Jolie's whole story, by the way. After reading it, you all should understand why she made this decision:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/opinion/angelina-jolie-pitt-diary-of-a-surgery.html?_r=1
You missed my point,,,,
I had BRAC 1 and 2 tests, last time. I was negative for those. Then I had a panel of tests (21 of them, I think) and was negative for all of them. Mine isn’t genetic, although of my mom’s 11 sibs and her, 9 had cancer! Most survived, two died (smokers both) Of 36 cousins, I’m maybe the 5th. Two have died, one lost her leg, one is fine, and me.
She mutilated as a child
Tattooed up later
Removed her boobs
Now her internal lady parts
She’s one weird agent chick and btw
According to my wife OB who is our social acquaintance
Voluntary total hysterectomies are rare and most docs won’t do them and would instead opt for annual contrast dye MRI or CAT scans or if near a top notch joint one can take the receptors pill test before CAT which attach to abnormal cell growth
She’s gonna die regardless one day
But under 40 years old to voluntarily give up your internal lady parts is damned nutty and with real consequence
Thus says my 50 year old in menopause hunny bunny who takes HRT btw and is damned glad to have them
Question
Let’s say I wardaddy have chance of testicular cancer
Do you think I’m giving up my testicles preemptively So I won’t die maybe or maybe not
Hell I’d rather die
She’s a rubber sheets chick that Angie
That was only one post to around 20 people (I guess you were one of them) on this thread alone. I didn't want to make 20 posts explaining the same thing.
According to my wife OB who is our social acquaintance Voluntary total hysterectomies are rare and most docs won’t do them
Jolie didn't have a total hysterectomy. She had an oophorectomy. And she had that done only after a doctor told her she might have an early form of cancer.
If your OB friend isn't aware that doctors encourage women with a certain genetic mutation to have prophylactic oophorectomies, then maybe that's because she's an OB and not a gynecological oncologist.
Btw, I had one nightmarish year of pure hell a few years ago, and that's the only reason that I know anything about any of this.
Thus says my 50 year old in menopause hunny bunny who takes HRT btw and is damned glad to have them
I'm 50, too. Since you're an up front, tell-it-like-you-see-it kind of guy, I'm going to be straightforward, too: Tell your lovely wife to stop the HRT. Certain cancers feed on estrogen. HRT can lead to cancer. <<< Click on that link for more info.
Now people are going to be angry with me, but I had to let you know.
Do you think I’m giving up my testicles preemptively
I can't believe I'm having this conversation. But... you wouldn't have to do that... because testicular cancer has been curable for the past 30 years.
And now I hope you and everyone else here will never have to know about any of these things. I hope you'll never have to sit before a doctor who says those three words - "You have..." well, you know.
“I wish she would reconcile with her father ...”
IIRC, they have reconciled and he has a relationship with her and her children.
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