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.
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Or Webb Hubbell.
We need some MDs on this thread. My understanding is the BRAC1 gene is specific as an indicator of high risk for breast cancer, not other types of cancer. If that is accurate, a double mastectomy does eliminate the risk.
A serious case of Carp Mouth.
Thanks. Just curious.
MomMD can you perhaps lend some insight on this thread?
A popular local TV newswoman here did the same thing.
She also frequently speaks of her “deep and abiding Christian faith”.
Maybe it’s just me, but I have difficulty reconciling the two. “You’re an awesome God, other than all of these defective parts you’ve palmed-off on me....yadda yadda.”
well I suppose as the Christian scientists do, we could just attempt to pray away disease; or we could let God work through the medical professionals in whose hands we place ourselves? I don’t see the two as irreconcilable.
She seems to be dismantling her female self, this must have some sort of psychological effect, I wonder how it affects her thinking and view of the world?
I think she carries a gene that yields a 85% chance of cancer.
......because we are supposed to, apparently, be wrapped up in her life.
Because she is an attention whore, “look at me, I took out a whole page ad”. Or maybe because she wants to remind us peons of the excellent health care and options available to her. Can you imagine any women fighting with her insurance carrier to voluntarily have her ovaries/fallopian tubes/breasts removed? I don’t have a problem with her removing any body parts she chooses. She would be a wonderful advocate for women’s cancer and cancer prevention yet chooses not to. That part seems hypocritical.
Many years ago my wife had a friend whose mother, aunts, and sisters all had breast cancer and most of them had died from it. She decided that she didn’t want to face the same fate. At that time it was very difficult to find a doctor who would do it. After they removed her breasts they found in the biopsies that she already had developing breast cancer. She is still alive.
Not sure what the latest research is. The intent may be to remove all estrogen production as some breast cancers are definitely estrogen sensitive. But that is only a guess
Removing her bones will lessen the chance of bone cancer.
Man, she is kooked.
And you know this how???
A freemartin. Hat tip to Huxley.
Wealthy people do not usually carry health insurance. Most might have a catastrophic but often just self insure.
My mother had breast cancer, a mastectomy, radiation, and chemo. She survived — until she got cancer in her other breast five years later, got another mastectomy, got more radiation, and more chemo. She did not survive the second round.
Wonder what she would do....if her mom had had brain cancer?
Micro-surgery?
Perhaps she decided to go public with all of this because she knew she would NOT be able to keep it quiet. One way or another, her medical records would be leaked/sold to the tabloids and she wanted to avoid that.
I remember when Farrah Fawcett was dying of cancer, her medical records were sold to one of the tabloids by a hospital employee (who has since died via, I think, suicide).
True, this will be all over the tabloids anyway, but I think Angelina was wise to speak out and perhaps take some of the wind out of the tabloid’s sails.
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