--- title: Angelina Jolie To Have More Cancer Prevention Surgery description: The actress made headlines around the world last year after she announced she'd had a preventative double mastectomy in a New York Times op-ed canonical: https://time.com/21100/angelina-jolie-to-have-more-cancer-prevention-surgery/ author: Megan Gibson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-12T11:57:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:43:01.758Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Angelina Jolie to have more cancer-prevention surgery og:description: The Oscar-winning actress revealed her prevenative double mastectomy in a New York Times op-ed last year og:url: https://time.com/21100/angelina-jolie-to-have-more-cancer-prevention-surgery/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdd3143b7ec72db0/6986850e810bbb6d0bc906df/476724101.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 86th Annual Academy Awards - People Magazine Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Angelina Jolie to have more cancer-prevention surgery twitter:description: The Oscar-winning actress revealed her prevenative double mastectomy in a New York Times op-ed last year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdd3143b7ec72db0/6986850e810bbb6d0bc906df/476724101.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Angelina Jolie To Have More Cancer Prevention Surgery by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Mar 12, 2014 11:57 AM UTC  Angelina Jolie poses in the press room at the 86th annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California. Angelina Jolie poses in the press room at the 86th annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California.Jason LaVeris—WireImage by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Mar 12, 2014 11:57 AM UTC Less than a year after penning a revealing op-ed in the[ New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?%5Fr=0) about her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie has revealed that she plans to have more cancer-prevention surgery. Last May, Jolie wrote that she’d tested positive for the breast-cancer-related BRCA1 gene, meaning she had a horrifying 87 percent chance of developing the disease. “Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could,” [Jolie wrote](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?%5Fr=0). “I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.” Doctors said the surgery reduced her risk of developing breast cancer to just 5 percent. But carrying the BRCA1 gene also means that Jolie’s risk of developing ovarian cancer—the disease which took her mother’s life at the age of 56—is at 50 percent and the Oscar-winning actress has confirmed that she’s planning on undergoing more surgery to lower her cancer risk. “There’s still another surgery to have, which I haven’t \[had\] yet,” she told [_Entertainment Weekly,_ for this week’s cover story](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/03/05/angelina-jolie-health-exclusive/). “I’ll get advice from all these wonderful people who I’ve been talking to, to get through that next stage.” In her _Times_ op-ed, Jolie also wrote about her decision to make her health issues public, writing, “I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.” \[[_EW_](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/03/05/angelina-jolie-health-exclusive/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/21100/angelina-jolie-to-have-more-cancer-prevention-surgery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/21100/angelina-jolie-to-have-more-cancer-prevention-surgery/"},"headline":"Angelina Jolie To Have More Cancer Prevention Surgery","datePublished":"2014-03-12T11:57:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:43:01.758Z","description":"The actress made headlines around the world last year after she announced she'd had a preventative double mastectomy in a New York Times op-ed","url":"https://time.com/21100/angelina-jolie-to-have-more-cancer-prevention-surgery/","keywords":["health","Breast Cancer","Hollywood","Angelina Jolie"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdd3143b7ec72db0/6986850e810bbb6d0bc906df/476724101.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcdd3143b7ec72db0/6986850e810bbb6d0bc906df/476724101.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"86th Annual Academy Awards - People Magazine Press Room","caption":"86th Annual Academy Awards - People Magazine Press Room","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health/","name":"health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/21100/angelina-jolie-to-have-more-cancer-prevention-surgery/","name":"Angelina Jolie To Have More Cancer Prevention Surgery"}}]}] ```