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To: TangledUpInBlue; struggle; SMARTY; Darksheare; Gaffer; Mercat; dfwgator; happyhomemaker; ...
Women have been doing this for years, long before Jolie did this. It's a very common surgery. They just don't talk about it because they're not in the spotlight...

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

133 posted on 03/25/2015 12:22:30 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

You missed my point,,,,


134 posted on 03/25/2015 1:41:02 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

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.


135 posted on 03/25/2015 4:58:32 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it. Ben Franklin)
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To: Tired of Taxes; CatherineofAragon; Twink

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


136 posted on 03/25/2015 7:51:14 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: Tired of Taxes
I don't know how you got my name on your ping list, but remove it. Thank you
137 posted on 03/25/2015 8:53:06 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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