Angelina Jolie reveals she had double mastectomy

Mon, May 13, 2013 (11:55 p.m.)

Actress Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday that she quietly underwent a preventive double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

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