Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy

There was a young woman in the news last year who had a double mastectomy as her mum and grandmother both had breast cancer and the chances of her getting it in later life were very high.
She was in her early 20s i believe.

There are some people would simply live with the risk though.
Everyone knows the huge risks of not only cancer but other serious ailments caused by smoking. Do all smokers quit to remove/minimise the risk? Well....you know the answer to that one.
 
Merlin5 said:
I highly doubt she'd be wanted by Hollywood as Lara anymore even with the best implants or CGI in the world. She'll be forever associated with cancer and the mastectomy, which doesn't work well in people's minds when trying to believe in an onscreen superhero.
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Again, she hasn't had cancer?
 
I saw a quote earlier saying -

"If somebody said your flight was 86% likely to come down, you wouldn't get on that plane"
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She'd probably say it was an easy decision rather than a brave. Good luck to her.

What a juvenile thread title and first post. Grow the hell up.
 
Regarding it being an easy decision - I agree, but only because she has a family. Being single with no kids, it would be a huge decision for me to have my balls chopped off - in some ways I think I would actually rather risk it, but then I'm not someone who's particularly 'scared' of dying. As for "If somebody said your flight was 86% likely to come down, you wouldn't get on that plane", well that depends on what you would lose by not getting on the plane. If it was the only way a woman could keep her breasts, I think you'd see the queue for boarding get significantly longer.
 
Kind of makes sense as a choice, impressive she's kept it quiet for so long. But yeah, I believe she's having 'replacements' so they still look 'natural' so to speak.

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dirtychinchilla said:
I don't think anyone doubts the severity of this. I was simply making light of it. As I said in the OP, it's evidently the right way forward for her. She's a beautiful woman though, which some portion of her success is due to.
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Almost everyone I know has lost friends and family to cancer, yet I have no problem with making light of the subject. It's how people deal with life, it'd be a bleak without it.

It is a touchy subject for some though, but I see no point in making this a fully serious thread.

Regarding was it the right decision? It's a choice that individual has to make. If I had an approximately 86% chance of testicular cancer and removal cleared that risk, get rid of them. Although unless you're in that situation I guess I'd never know what your choice would be.
 
Kazz said:
Almost everyone I know has lost friends and family to cancer, yet I have no problem with making light of the subject. It's how people deal with life, it'd be a bleak without it.

It is a touchy subject for some though, but I see no point in making this a fully serious thread.

Regarding was it the right decision? It's a choice that individual has to make. If I had an approximately 86% chance of testicular cancer and removal cleared that risk, get rid of them. Although unless you're in that situation I guess I'd never know what your choice would be.
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Having to do things like put on testosterone gel on your skin (which can leave you in agony), injections which can apparently leave you meak, or aggressive... I don't think it is quite as clear cut with your balls.
 
It was breast cancer that took my nan.

This is a really brave decision for her, I know it has massively reduced her risks but ... Her entire career, her publicity is based partly ... well lets face it, primarily on her looks. Theres no way is she daft enough to not realise this. She has an amazing figure and this will change that, no doubt.

Its a good thing that she has been so open about it. Young girls look up to her and this may help get more of them having regular breast exams. If only us blokes weren't so closed on testicular and prostate cancers.
 
Woden said:
It was breast cancer that took my nan.

This is a really brave decision for her, I know it has massively reduced her risks but ... Her entire career, her publicity is based partly ... well lets face it, primarily on her looks. Theres no way is she daft enough to not realise this. She has an amazing figure and this will change that, no doubt.

Its a good thing that she has been so open about it. Young girls look up to her and this may help get more of them having regular breast exams. If only us blokes weren't so closed on testicular and prostate cancers.
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To be brutely honest her looks have already faded somewhat and was looking very rough from Wanted onwards. But she's somewhat transcended that with her other work
 
To be honest as a male I dont think theirs anything that can really identify with how hard it would be as a woman to go through something like that.

Knowing the decision is the right one in the long run doesnt help with having to get it done..at least I imagine.
 
I don't get this at all..
Cancer runs in my family. I would never get the test done let alone have a mastectomy "just in case". I could get another type of cancer so it wouldnt stop that anyway.

My friend is going through this and I just can't get my head around it at all.
 
Scougar said:
Having to do things like put on testosterone gel on your skin (which can leave you in agony), injections which can apparently leave you meak, or aggressive... I don't think it is quite as clear cut with your balls.
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True, good point. Although I'd still like to think it's the lesser of the two outcomes.
 
Cant believe the utter disrespect for a human being as there is being shown on here.
Like her or loathe her, shes just made probably the hardest decision of her life thatll leave her scarred and "abnormal" for the rest of her life, and all a lot of you can talk about is her now lack of a rack.
Jesus christ, grow up.
 
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