Angelina Jolie says the decision to deal with her cancer was simple. Mine is not — theguardian.com

I am not married to Brad Pitt, I have never given a speech at the UN and I tend not to travel by private jet. But Angelina Jolie and I, it turns out, have two major things in common. We are both 39, and we both have a gene mutation, which gives us an elevated risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Jolie underwent a preventative double mastectomy and reconstruction in 2013, and today revealed that she has elected to have further surgery to remove her ovaries and her fallopian tubes, following a check up two weeks ago. Writing in the New York Times, Jolie, who has a BRCA1 mutation, says she has an estimated 87% risk of breast cancer and 50% risk of ovarian cancer.

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