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_Published 2013-05-14. After finding out she had a gene that raises her risk of developing breast cancer to 87%, Angelina Jolie elected to have a preventative double mastectomy._


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## Transcript

Actress, activist, advocate, mother, Angelina Jolie is many things, and Tuesday the actress added proactive survivor to the list. In an op- ed piece for the New York Times, the actress talked about her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1, a gene that increases a woman's risk of certain cancers. Jolie writes, quote, my doctors estimated that I had an 87 % risk of breast cancer and a 50 % risk of ovarian cancer. You guys look awesome tonight, Man. The Oscar winner began her preventative process in February, at the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills, where singer Sheryl Crow was treated for her breast cancer in 2006.

Now, nine weeks later, she says the final surgery has been completed, and her breasts have been reconstructed with implants. Cancer is something Jolie knows only too well. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died six years ago after a decade long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 56. Jolie talked about Bertrand in a 2011 60 Minutes interview. She didn't have much of her, her, her own career, her own life, her own experiences, her own, you know, everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. I will try my best. At 37, Jolie doesn't want the same legacy for her six children, writing, quote, I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Jolie says she wrote the New York Times op- ed to tell other women, that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy, but it is one I am very happy that I made, adding she chose not to keep her story private to let other women know they have options if they too are high- risk. It's a bold and public step from a woman who is well known for her privacy.

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