The American actress Angelina Jolie, recently gave statements in an interview offered to the Daily Telegraph, about her warnings of being suffering cancer. Angelina decided to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes to reduce the chances of developing ovarian cancer, resulting in an early menopause.
The actress says, “I love the menopause. I haven’t suffered a terrible reaction, I’m very lucky. I am older and that reassures me, I feel more mature. I don’t want to be young. “
Angelina Jolie has 40 years old, she is married to the also actor Brad Pitt; who supports her unconditionally and she is mother of six children, three with her husband and three acquired in adoption; she is also a great activist, known for her work in Africa.
Her mother role is what matters the most to fulfilling for her, so she decided to get tested to decipher if she has the cancer gene or not, test which gave her a result of an 87% positive risk of having it. In women, the disease manifests itself in the breast, ovaries and fallopian tubes. In melanoma, lymphatic, or tumors it is observed in smaller percentage.Angelina rang the alarm bells when she got a preventive double mastectomy in 2013. The actress makes this decision for two reasons, one, she is a mother and wants to preserve herself for more time to enjoy and to raise her family, and two, her mother, Marcheline Bertraud died of breast and ovarian cancer in 2007, an event that greatly impacted Jolie, determining her to take better care of herself.
After a surgery to remove her breasts, Jolie began to appear thinner and with sickly figure, the media attacked, accusing her of having eating disorders crisis or stress and depression; she suffered much of this but because she was worried for her organism and responsibilities as a mother of six. When her privacy allowed her, the actress confessed her concerns and her decision to change her body with just 38 years old, for the love of her family; this action from Jolie, triggered the concern of women about their health and prevention of breast cancer.
The test is done on patients where is considered the need to know if they have hereditary factors of cancer, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2; a cancer’s risk of throwing percentages of future conditions and which areas are most likely to have this illness. Angelina Jolie is known for being a very brave woman and whatever decision women makes to this difficulty should always be the right one for herself.
As a remark, it is important to mention that in men could be found the percentage with respect of prostate cancer; and for both genders, the propensity of tumors.
ALFA