Doctors call her decision 'courageous' and 'influential' and say her revelation would increase awareness about genetic testing and prophylactic surgery to reduce the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
A gynecologic oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic’s Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health Institute, Dr. Robert DeBernardo told Mail Online, on March 24, “My hat is off to her. She is doing a lot of good for women worldwide by raising awareness of BRCA testing and options women have.”
In an op-ed column in the New York Times on Tuesday, March 24, the mother of six children revealed she had a double mastectomy in 2013 and also a surgery last week after blood tests showed what's now considered early signs of the disease.
Brad Pitt's wife carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that increases her risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Her mother died of ovarian cancer at the age of 56.
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