Angelina Jolie has confirmed she will have more cancer-preventing surgery, after a double mastectomy last year. The 38-year-old actress had the procedure after discovering she was at high risk of developing breast cancer. "I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much I could," she said at the time.
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LISBON - Now in an interview with Entertainment Weekly she said she is "very happy" with her decision to have the operation. Angelina Jolie giving a speech Angelina Jolie works with charities to raise awareness about sexual violence "There's still another surgery to have, which I haven't yet. I'll get advice from all these wonderful people who I've been talking to, to get through that next stage," she said. She said she has had a lot of support from the public. "I was very, very moved by all the support and kindness from so many people."
The mother-of-six has previously explained her reasons for having the surgery, arguing she needed to minimise her risk after her mother died from ovarian cancer aged 56.
In an article entitled My Medical Choice, she explained that her mother fought cancer for nearly a decade. Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt, praised her choice as "absolutely heroic".The Hollywood star's doctors estimated she had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, because of genes she had inherited.
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