• Summary:
Angelina's mother fought cancer for a decade, more or less, and died at 56. She was able to meet her first grandchild and hold her in her arms. Angelina has a faulty gene, BRCA1, that increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer: she has an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Once she found this out, she decided to minimize the risk as much as she could. She made a decision: she would have a preventive double mastectomy. In an article she wrote in the New York Times, she explained how she got the breasts surgery, and about the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant.
She's very happy now to have had this mastectomy because her breast cancer risk has dropped from 87% to 5%.
Finally, she thanked Brad Pitt, her partner, because he was next to her supporting her all through this difficult time.
• Opinion:
I really admire this woman. I know she has done this operation for her health, but in a part of the text she says that now she can tell her children that she's not going to leave them because of this type of cancer, since the risk is nothing compared with the previous 87%.
She's incredible. Writing this article for women who have the same problems and explaining everything... she has to be very brave.
• Words I have learnt:
Faulty: defectuós
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