Angelina Jolie's aunt Debbie Martin dies of breast cancer
The headline of the article is "Angelina Jolie's Aunt Debbie Martin Dies of Breast Cancer". The author of the article is Sam Jones The article was published on the web site www.guardian.com on May 27.2013. The article provides the information about Angelina Jolie's aunt has died of breast cancer less than two weeks afterthe Hollywood actor revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy to avoid the disease that killed her mother at 56.
In the beginning of the article the author states Debbie Martin, 61, died in a hospital in Escondido, near San Diego, California, according to her husband, Ron. She was the younger sister of Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, whose death from ovarian cancer in 2007 prompted the actor to have the surgery she described in a New York Times article this month.
Then Sam reports that Jolie revealed that she had a defective gene, BRCA1, which significantly increased her risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. "Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk," she wrote.
Anyway the author states that Ron Martin said his wife also carried the gene but had not been not aware of it until she was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. "Had we known, we certainly would have done exactly what Angelina did," he told Associated Press. Also the author states that Ron added that after developing breast cancer, his wife had her ovaries removed to minimise her chances of the disease returning.
The author adds that in the New York Times article, published on 14 May, Jolie explained how her mother's death had informed her decision to have surgery. "My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," she wrote. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."
In the very end of the article the author provides the information of Jolie's decision to share her experiences was widely praised. Wendy Watson, founder of the UK's National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline, said the article had helped to focus attention on the issue. "It is excellent, because it is the highest profile you can get for it," she said. "It raises the profile for other women to look to if they have a family history and would benefit from being screened more frequently, or having surgery or having a genetic test.
"She probably feels that undergoing the operation is common sense but it probably does take a certain amount of courage to face it."
In my opinion it is very sad because younger sister of Jolie's mother had defective gene but was not aware of it until cancer diagnosis in 2004.
The headline of the article is "Angelina Jolie's Aunt Debbie Martin Dies of Breast Cancer". The author of the article is Sam Jones The article was published on the web site www.guardian.com on May 27.2013. The article provides the information about Angelina Jolie's aunt has died of breast cancer less than two weeks afterthe Hollywood actor revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy to avoid the disease that killed her mother at 56.
In the beginning of the article the author states Debbie Martin, 61, died in a hospital in Escondido, near San Diego, California, according to her husband, Ron. She was the younger sister of Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, whose death from ovarian cancer in 2007 prompted the actor to have the surgery she described in a New York Times article this month.
Then Sam reports that Jolie revealed that she had a defective gene, BRCA1, which significantly increased her risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. "Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk," she wrote.
Anyway the author states that Ron Martin said his wife also carried the gene but had not been not aware of it until she was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. "Had we known, we certainly would have done exactly what Angelina did," he told Associated Press. Also the author states that Ron added that after developing breast cancer, his wife had her ovaries removed to minimise her chances of the disease returning.
The author adds that in the New York Times article, published on 14 May, Jolie explained how her mother's death had informed her decision to have surgery. "My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," she wrote. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."
In the very end of the article the author provides the information of Jolie's decision to share her experiences was widely praised. Wendy Watson, founder of the UK's National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline, said the article had helped to focus attention on the issue. "It is excellent, because it is the highest profile you can get for it," she said. "It raises the profile for other women to look to if they have a family history and would benefit from being screened more frequently, or having surgery or having a genetic test.
"She probably feels that undergoing the operation is common sense but it probably does take a certain amount of courage to face it."
In my opinion it is very sad because younger sister of Jolie's mother had defective gene but was not aware of it until cancer diagnosis in 2004.
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