Angelina Jolie-Double Mastectomy

Angelina Jolie recently released details about her decision to have a double Mastectomy.

Here is what she had to say about it:

My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman," Jolie wrote. "Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy."

 

Jolie's mother, actress and producer Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer in 2007 at the age of 56. Jolie is 37 years old. (CNN)

Click below for a quick link to the op-ed piece that Angelina wrote concerning her decision.

Angelina Jolie-Double Mastectomy

Comment below and tell me what you think of her decision.

Kendra