Multiple award winning actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a preventive double mastectomy after finding out she had a gene mutation that leads to high risk of breast cancer.
Her Doctor estimated that she had 85 percent of risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of Ovarian cancer.
Angelina said her mother died of breast cancer at age of 56 after battling with the ailment and the discovery that she carried the gene led to her decision out of fear that she might one day suffer like her late mother did.
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