The actress admitted this week she'd undergone preventative surgery after discovering she carried the "faulty" BRCA gene which gave her an 87% chance of contracting breast cancer and 50% chance of ovarian cancer, the disease her mother died of in 2007 at just 56.
Following the double mastectomy, which she began in February this year with several invasive procedures over a three month period, People magazine have claimed she will now have her ovaries removed as well to lessen her chances of contracting cancer of the ovaries.
While the actress underwent the double mastectomy during a painful three month process earlier this year it's unknown when she will have the second set of procedures. Experts claim that in general carriers should wait unil they're over 40 or have decided to stop having children before they proceed.
Brad and Angelina Jolie: Star revealed double mastectomy earlier this week (WENN)
The Salt actress, who has six children three of which were biological, is 37, and in the report claims there is nothing medically stopping the actress from having the procedure, a medial expert reportedly told the New York Daily News.“She could get (the surgery) tomorrow. It’s a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure with minimal recovery time,” said Dr. Sharyn Lewin, a gynecological oncologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center.
Opening up about her ordeal Jolie wrote in the New York Times this week she admitted her motivation for under going the surgery was her children.
"My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," she wrote. "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."
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