Angelina to do next surgery; planning to remove her ovaries
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Angelina Jolie is one resilient mom.
The actress, 37, has experienced no complications since undergoing a double mastectomy in February and reconstructive surgery in April. "She is doing well," a source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story.
But her medical odyssey is not done. The mother of six is also planning to undergo surgery to remove her ovaries. Because of her "faulty" BRCA1 gene, she still faces a high risk of developing ovarian cancer, which her doctors estimate at 50 percent. Some doctors recommend patients undergo the surgery by age 40 or when a woman is done having children, though it may trigger early menopause.
For now, though, the actress and her fiancé, Brad Pitt, have been focused on maintaining a sense of routine for their kids – keeping up family traditions such as a Valentine's Day gift exchange and an Easter egg hunt while Jolie was undergoing treatment.
In the weeks surrounding the surgeries, "life was normal" for the children, says a source, and they didn't notice anything amiss.
Adds a family insider: "Her kids always come first to her."
Oh Angie. The side effects will be much bigger and worse than of mastectomy- it will trigger early menopause, osteoporosis, significantly increase risk of cardiovascular diseases, depressions, seriously affect sexual life if you will not undergo hormonal therapy (what Im not recommending, because exactly that menopausal hormone therapy induced cancer in my moms case). Not to mention that hormonal instability will increase the risk of other types of cancer.
The consequences of this decission can make more harm than good in the end, so I hope she will be very carreful and take enough time to consult it with as many doctors/oncologists as possible.
Aww this must be tough cause she still wants to have more children, but now she will just adopt. It's so brave and not an easy decision. My aunt had to have a hysterectomy.
