Angelina Jolie planning to remove her ovaries in preventative cancer surgery after undergoing double mastectomy

Angelina Jolie's preemptive war on cancer isn’t over; her risk of getting breast cancer was higher than the risk of ovarian cancer.

The stunning “Salt” actress who single handedly sparked a national dialogue Tuesday with the announcement of her double mastectomy is planning another surgery, this time, to remove her ovaries.

Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy at The Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills.

Her mother died of ovarian cancer at 56, and Jolie carries the “faulty” BRCA gene that gives her a 50% chance of also contracting the disease.
Experts say such carriers generally should get their ovaries removed as soon as they finish having kids or by age 40.

 

Brad Pitt called partner Angelina Jolie's decision to have the surgery 'absolutely heroic.'

It’s not clear when Jolie, 37, plans to have the procedure, but there’s no obvious medical reason she has to wait following her April 27 breast reconstruction, doctors told the Daily News.


“She could get (the surgery) tomorrow. It’s a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure with minimal recovery time,” said Dr. Sharyn Lewin, a gynecological oncologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center.