Angelina Jolie Removes Ovaries After Cancer Scare: ‘I Will Not Be Able To Have More Children’

 

Angelina Jolie has once again shown how brave of a woman she is. The actress, 39, just revealed in an emotional op-ed that two years after undergoing a double mastectomy, she decided to remove both her ovaries and her Fallopian tubes, after a blood test showed an early sign of cancer.

Angelina Jolie never wanted her six children with husband Brad Pitt to say they lost their mother to ovarian cancer — the way she had lost her mother, aunt and grandmother to cancer. And now, they never will have to. Read Angie’s emotional new op-ed, documenting her decision to undergo two serious procedures.

Angelina Jolie Removes Ovaries After Cancer Scare

After Angie’s double mastectomy, she continued regular trips to the doctor, and planned on having the additional surgeries. However, when receiving a blood test back that showed what “could be a sign of early cancer,” she was forced to make a decision that changed her life.
“I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn’t live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren,” she wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times titled, Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery. She went on to explain that an ultrasound showed if it was cancer, she had caught it in the early stages.
However, she made the decision last week to undergo a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy after finding “a small benign tumor on one ovary, but no signs of cancer in any of the tissues.”