Angelina Jolie will no longer have children. The actress had cancer genetic risk by 50 percent of developing ovarian cancer. By removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes has minimized this risk. How useful is such a surgery?
- Angelina Jolie can remove the ovaries.
- actress wants thus reduce their risk of cancer.
- experts recommend surgery only after completing family planning.
Angelina Jolie has just taken the next step in terms of radical pension. In the “New York Times” she announced that she let herself also remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes. Your doctor phoned her: “There are some inflammatory values are increased, and taken together, a sign of cancer may be at an early stage.”
- Facts Ovarian Cancer
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ovarian cancer, in the jargon “ovarian cancer” in women is the sixth most common cancer. According to information from the guidance program in Germany each year are affected about 7800 women from ovarian cancer.
This cancer occurs mainly in women aged 60 years, but about one in ten women is under 45 years of age. Approximately one in ten ovarian cancer is hereditary
Two years ago, moved Angelina Jolie with a confession the world. The actress had to take off their breasts and let rebuild. In May 2013, it wrote in the “New York Times” that she had to make a double mastectomy. She explained that they carry the defective BRCA1 gene.
Because of this genetic change their risk of breast cancer was 87 percent, the risk for ovarian cancer 50 percent. The family history illustrates the dramatic Jolie’s great-grandmother Virginia Gouwens died at age 53 from ovarian cancer and her aunt Debbie Martin at age 61 from breast cancer. Also Jolie’s mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, succumbed to the insidious ovarian cancer at the age of only 56 years.
A similar fate would like the Hollywood-size spare their six children.
“I will no more children”
“Regardless of the hormones that I take now, I am now in menopause,” the 39-year-old said the impact of the intervention. “I’m going to have any more children and I expect some physical changes.” But they feel comfortable with what will come – not because she was strong, but because the part of life is. “It’s not something I’m afraid.”
This drastic step was the mother who has three of its own and three adopted children with Brad Pitt, announced shortly after the removal of the breasts. “My doctors suspected that at my risk of breast cancer at 87 percent and ovarian cancer is 50 percent,” Jolie wrote.
“I have decided to make a preventative double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, because the risk of developing breast cancer was greater, and the operation is more complex. Of developing my chances of getting breast cancer have minimized from 87 percent to less than five percent. “
- These genes play in breast cancer a role
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The German Cancer Information Service said: The most important breast cancer genes are referred to as “BRCA1″ and “BRCA2″. The abbreviation stands for the English term “breast cancer gene”.
Located in one of these genes, a mutation is present, to expect a breast cancer according to current knowledge up to eight out of ten of the wearers. Men can also be affected by breast cancer if they carry the BRCA2 gene. Both men and women inherit modified genetic information to some of their children.
How useful are the operations for cancer prevention
When women precaution can be removed with increased risk from the genes “BRCA1″ and “BRCA2″ not only the breasts, but also the fallopian tubes and ovaries, lower ye disease risk.
“The risk of ovarian cancer is characterized by 97 percent decreased, although not equal to zero, and the altered hormonal situation and the risk of breast cancer continues to decline,” writes the German Cancer Information Service. This operation will but women offered only after completion of family planning, ie about 40 years.
- Pain-free by the rule
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usually pain affects one in ten women. What effective therapies are available, we will show you the “Endometriosis / PMS Guide.”
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