Dear Angelina:

vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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You realize, of course, that you can get cancer pretty much anywhere in your body, right? Perhaps you should have your lungs removed just to be safe. Or maybe your bones. I'd mention the brain, but it appears you don't have one of those.

http://news.yahoo.com/angelina-jolie-ovaries-removed-over-cancer-concern-084101779.html

Oscar-winning film star Angelina Jolie said she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer, the disease that killed her mother at the age of 56.
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vraiblonde

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I don't care what Angelina does to her body - that's her business - but she influences all sorts of women who copy celebrities because they can't think for themselves. I think she's irresponsible and attention whoring by going public with something that should be between her and her doctor.
 
Bay_Kat

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I already thought she was strange when she was with Billy Bob, didn't they wear necklaces with vials of each others blood or something strange like that?
 
lucky_bee

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Bay_Kat said:
I already thought she was strange when she was with Billy Bob, didn't they wear necklaces with vials of each others blood or something strange like that?
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She did. She also made out with her brother. I will never take this woman seriously. She used to look for attention using any flashy gimmick, now she's begging for attention being so public about her charitable work and removing every possible spare body part in the name of cancer :bigwhoop:
 
Chasey_Lane

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"Jolie, who also lost her aunt and grandmother to cancer, underwent the laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy last week after blood tests revealed possible indicators of early cancer.

She said doctors had told her she had a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer due to an inherited genetic mutation."

Good for her! Cancer is real and scary, and any preventative measures you can take to lessen the likelihood are good IMO.
 
RoseRed

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Chasey_Lane said:
"Jolie, who also lost her aunt and grandmother to cancer, underwent the laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy last week after blood tests revealed possible indicators of early cancer.

She said doctors had told her she had a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer due to an inherited genetic mutation."

Good for her! Cancer is real and scary, and any preventative measures you can take to lessen the likelihood are good IMO.
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Is this considered elective surgery and does insurance cover it?
 
kwillia

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Chasey_Lane said:
"Jolie, who also lost her aunt and grandmother to cancer, underwent the laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy last week after blood tests revealed possible indicators of early cancer.

She said doctors had told her she had a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer due to an inherited genetic mutation."

Good for her! Cancer is real and scary, and any preventative measures you can take to lessen the likelihood are good IMO.
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I agree with you. Ovarian and uterine cancer is rarely diagnosed until the later stages. Uterine cancer is typically found only after you've had enough female issues to warrant an invasive biopsy of the uterus. Ovarian cancer is typically found only after the cancer has grown enough to cause extreme pain and/or extreme size change of the ovary for it to actually show up on a sonogram or similar test. You will not find either cancer from a pap smear or other regular test. We all know women her age and younger who have the same surgery she just had simply because they don't want to deal with the heavy periods, cramping, clotting and such that tends to come with aging. Why roll your eyes at her for being preemptive against cancer...:shrug:
 
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vraiblonde said:
I don't care what Angelina does to her body - that's her business - but she influences all sorts of women who copy celebrities because they can't think for themselves. I think she's irresponsible and attention whoring by going public with something that should be between her and her doctor.
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Well said
 
lovinmaryland

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Chasey_Lane said:
"Jolie, who also lost her aunt and grandmother to cancer, underwent the laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy last week after blood tests revealed possible indicators of early cancer.

She said doctors had told her she had a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer due to an inherited genetic mutation."

Good for her! Cancer is real and scary, and any preventative measures you can take to lessen the likelihood are good IMO.
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I agree! If the doctors think its a good idea I'm going w/ their opinion :yay:
 
vraiblonde

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kwillia said:
Why roll your eyes at her for being preemptive against cancer...:shrug:
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I'm not rolling my eyes at her being preemptive against cancer, I'm rolling my eyes that she's using it as a publicity stunt and encouraging other women to start having their body parts removed.

Lung cancer creeps up on you, too, many times disguised as pneumonia. Why doesn't she have her lungs removed if she's so worried about cancer?
 
kwillia

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vraiblonde said:
I'm not rolling my eyes at her being preemptive against cancer, I'm rolling my eyes that she's using it as a publicity stunt and encouraging other women to start having their body parts removed.

Lung cancer creeps up on you, too, many times disguised as pneumonia. Why doesn't she have her lungs removed if she's so worried about cancer?
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I guess I glance right past the whole publicity stunt thing because I never see Hollywood folks as role models. But then again you are right that some people do... how else could we explain Chasey's butt-shelf implants and platinum hair job other than her infatuation with Kim K. :doh:
 
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