Why angelina jolie have Mastectomy ?

Breast cancer theme back into the conversation, after Angelina Jolie reveals artist has made the removal of both breasts as the prevention of cancer.
Artist Angelina Jolie wrote an editorial in The New York Times, entitled "My Medical Choice". Jolie explains he chose a double mastectomy procedure or removal of both breasts not because he had been suffering from cancer, but he is a carrier (carriers of the gene mutation) that BRCA1 increases the risk of developing breast cancer and cervical cancer.
Gen BRCA

Every cell in the human body has two BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, one inherited from parents. A woman who has received a BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are damaged from one parent and one healthy gene from the other parent is referred to as a carrier of the BRCA genes are damaged.

Angelina Jolie's mother Marcheline Bertrand died of ovarian cancer

Although only a BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are needed to help prevent the healthy growth of cells of a cancer, a BRCA gene remaining healthy susceptible to damage due to environmental factors such as toxins, radiation, and other chemicals. Women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are damaged, tend to be people with cancer.

Jolie, 37, explained the risks of BRCA1 suffered: "I hit the Doctors estimate the risk of breast cancer is 87 percent and 50 percent of uterine cancer. These Risks vary in each case." Only a few cases of breast cancer caused by a hereditary gene mutation. Those who suffered damage BRCA1 gene have a 65 percent risk of cancer hit. Jolie's mother died at the age of 56 years due to cancer of the uterus.

mastectomy procedures

Jolie began the process of removal of the breast with the procedure "nipple delay" whose purpose is to ensure there is no breast cancer behind the nipple. Procedure he underwent removal of both breasts April 27, including breast reconstruction using implants.

"I want to talk to other women, that mastectomy is not a decision that I took with ease," writes Jolie. "But I am happy with the decision I took. From 87 percent, the risk of breast cancer I now only five percent. Could I say to my kids, they do not need to be afraid of losing me because of breast cancer."

Mastectomy patients who lived there are various kinds, depending on each individual case. Mastectomy "nipple-sparing" just lift the breast tissue, not including the nipple or areola. While mastectomy "skin-sparing" lifted the entire breast. Finally, mastectomy "modifed radical" lifting the entire breast, including the breast tissue in the sternum, collarbone and ribs, and lump around the armpit.

Based on the results of several studies, preventive mastectomy or known by the term "prophilactic mastectomy" is more often found in the United States compared to other countries. And the number of women who choose these procedures increased by 150 percent from late 1990 until mid-2000.

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