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Angelina Jolie
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Dang first the boobs now the ovaries and such. She can do anything she wants and certainly has the money.
I guess eventually she will remove her brain and have it put in a glass jar connected to video, Audio, and life support to make sure she doesn't get anything.
How will she prevent Alzhimers though?
Wouldn't that suck.
I guess eventually she will remove her brain and have it put in a glass jar connected to video, Audio, and life support to make sure she doesn't get anything.
How will she prevent Alzhimers though?
Wouldn't that suck.
Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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The woman has very uncommon genetic predisposition to certain cancers. A history of those cancers on her mother's side. A very high potential of an early and unpleasant death. Lousy roll of the dice.
A little nutty sure, but she has very good medical reasons for what she did.
I agree on how odd it was with Pitt leaving Aniston, just don't get that idea.
It was the phone call every woman hopes she never gets.
After having a preventive double mastectomy two years ago to reduce her risks of getting cancer, Angelina Jolie - who lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to the disease - got a call from her doctor two weeks ago with results from a recent blood test. As she writes in a New York Times op-ed piece published early Tuesday, the doctor told her that the test showed markers that could be a sign of early cancer.
"I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt," Jolie, 39, writes. "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."
Jolie called her husband, Brad Pitt, who was on a plane within hours. "The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters. It is polarizing, and it is peaceful," the mother of six writes.
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That same day Jolie went to see the surgeon who had treated her mother Marcheline, who died in 2007 of ovarian cancer.
"She teared up when she saw me: 'You look just like her,' " Jolie writes. "I broke down."
She waited another five days for test results that would reveal whether there was cancer somewhere in her body. "I passed those five days in a haze, attending my children's soccer game, and working to stay calm and focused."
Finally the results came and she learned that the tumor test was negative. "I was full of happiness, although the radioactive tracer meant I couldn't hug my children," she writes. "There was still a chance of early stage cancer, but that was minor compared with a full-blown tumor. To my relief, I still had the option of removing my ovaries and fallopian tubes and I chose to do it." It was no small decision on her part because removing her ovaries would push her into forced menopause.
Jolie, who carries the BRCA1 gene mutation that predisposes her to cancer and prompted her to have a double mastectomy in 2013, stresses in the op-ed that the decision she came to is not for everyone. "The most important thing is to learn about the options and choose what is right for you personally," she writes.
Never understood why Brad Pitt would divorce someone as beautiful as Jennifer Anniston and marry Jolie.
I thought the same thing but look how many men Jennifer has gone through, maybe she is a little high maintenance or a psycho.
There is a history of colon cancer in at least 2 instances on both sides of my family. While the colon removal surgery I just completed was not prophylactic in any sense, there is a peace of mind that came with it that colon cancer would not be a part of my future.
I can understand her choice.
Brad Steele
I agree on how odd it was with Pitt leaving Aniston, just don't get that idea.
I just have this image of Jennifer laying there in bed like a cold fish and Jolie being a total wild animal. Perhaps just perception but....
Similar, though different:
There is a history of colon cancer in at least 2 instances on both sides of my family. While the colon removal surgery I just completed was not prophylactic in any sense, there is a peace of mind that came with it that colon cancer would not be a part of my future.
I can understand her choice.
I think anybody that has been thru cancer or had a family member with cancer, would understand why she did what she did
With the history of cancer in her family I can understand why she would lean towards being proactive and having these surgeries.
Her looks and life style have nothing to do with her decisions in trying to better the odds of staying healthy and avoiding cancer.
What I don't understand is why anyone would slam her for doing something that thousands of women do when faced with with the same issues she has.
If you like her fine, if not that's fine too but don't make light of what she felt she had to do because in essence, your making light of every other woman that has had to face the same surgeries.
I have the cancer gene in me. Please tell me which part of my body to lope off [?][?]
Start with your head and work your way down.[:D]
quote:Originally posted by armilite
I have the cancer gene in me. Please tell me which part of my body to lope off [?][?]
Start with your head and work your way down.[:D]
Well I wouldn't last very long that way.[;)][:D]
quote:Originally posted by RobOz
quote:Originally posted by armilite
I have the cancer gene in me. Please tell me which part of my body to lope off [?][?]
Start with your head and work your way down.[:D]
Well I wouldn't last very long that way.[;)][:D]
Better than lingering
I guess eventually she will remove her brain and have it put in a glass jar connected to video, Audio, and life support to make sure she doesn't get anything.
I think she is already brainless...
I have the cancer gene in me. Please tell me which part of my body to lope off [?][?]
First, remove your genes....
Brad Steele
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
The choice was hers, she made it and she will have to live with it.
quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
I agree on how odd it was with Pitt leaving Aniston, just don't get that idea.
I just have this image of Jennifer laying there in bed like a cold fish and Jolie being a total wild animal. Perhaps just perception but....
In the name of men everywhere I humbly volunteer to test this hypothesis. It will be long, tiring, grueling work; but, rest assured men, I WILL get to the bottom, er, bottoms, of this question.
It is good to hate so much when knowing so little.
The woman has very uncommon genetic predisposition to certain cancers. A history of those cancers on her mother's side. A very high potential of an early and unpleasant death. Lousy roll of the dice.
A little nutty sure, but she has very good medical reasons for what she did.
I agree on how odd it was with Pitt leaving Aniston, just don't get that idea.
^^^^^^^^^This; she lost her mother to virulent cancer, among other things.....
While there can be no doubt she's as nutty as a fruitcake, I can't say if I were her -money and all- I wouldn't take the same, extreme precautions......
Well she has her father's genes doesn't she? Jon Voight is no libturd like she is. He said she is nuts. Maybe she should have a lobotomy so she won't turn conservative like her father.[:D]
She publicly states that she and Brad have guns in the house and know how to use them. Better than most of the flaming hypocrites.
quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
I agree on how odd it was with Pitt leaving Aniston, just don't get that idea.
I just have this image of Jennifer laying there in bed like a cold fish and Jolie being a total wild animal. Perhaps just perception but....
Jolie is "nasty" sex.....I'm sure ole Brad is into that![:o)]
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
quote:Originally posted by fideau
Well she has her father's genes doesn't she? Jon Voight is no libturd like she is. He said she is nuts. Maybe she should have a lobotomy so she won't turn conservative like her father.[:D]
She publicly states that she and Brad have guns in the house and know how to use them. Better than most of the flaming hypocrites.
Exactly. Somewhere I saw an interview with Pitt as well, talked about growing up with guns and owning guns today.
Jolie was a bit of a nut case in her younger days. Was surprised she made it out of all her youthful craziness alive. But she did, has grown up. She's spent a lot of her own money on charitable works for kids, hard not to respect that.
Her telling people about these cancer fears is only a bad thing in that it gives haters more to hate on. Some people need that, they thrive on it. Don't understand why.
I've known women who lost mothers to such things. Or lost breasts and endured a whole lot of suffering just trying to stay alive.
On the good side of it, for some women, it's important they hear about it. Gives them that extra push to go see their doctor, get tested. Heard on the news today that following Jolie's first cancer disclosure there was a big jump in women getting checked for BRCA1, among other screenings.
Maybe it saved some lives.
Where do you think Bruce Jenner is getting his lady parts from?????
Just a guess ...
Where do you think Bruce Jenner is getting his lady parts from?????
He could get a 45 pound * transplant from Kim and I doubt Kayne would ever know the difference.....
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
quote:Originally posted by blrmkr83
Where do you think Bruce Jenner is getting his lady parts from?????
He could get a 45 pound * transplant from Kim and I doubt Kayne would ever know the difference.....
If I knew what she does about her family history think I would be doing the very same thing.
I thought she was hot till she started losing weight, now she is just a stick figure.
I agree with the Capt thoughts on the comparison.
Never understood why Brad Pitt would divorce someone as beautiful as Jennifer Anniston and marry Jolie.
J.A., beautiful ????? that is a joke..., RIGHT ??
I didn't think so. [}:)]
To me the problem with this comes not in that Jolie is a paranoid nut case. A family history is one thing; by all means get a full cancer screening every 3 months. To me the problem is, she has a very good chance of NOT getting cancer as well. More to the point: a physician first should do no harm. Hippocratic oath.
Tell me, isn't lopping off healthy breasts and digging out healthy ovaries and tubes (and in so doing condemning a woman to early and instant menopause) doing harm? How could a physician conscience this? If I went to a doctor and said, "Please amputate my left leg because I MIGHT have it crushed in a car crash in 3 years and it might need amputating then, so let's do it pre-emptively," should he not laugh in my face?
Had a dear friend whose Mother died young of cancer. She had herself tested and found she too have the gene and the disposition to get cancer. After having kids, she chose a radical double mastectomy maybe 16 years ago. Six years ago she chose the have the hysterectomy and ovary removal to fight the odds. Four years ago she was dx-ed with ovarian cancer in her peritoneum (stage 4). She fought valiantly for 3 years until the cancer lost its life. She's now whole again in heaven.
I think we can try whatever we want but physically the gene pool wins out in the end...
Translate that to men. If your personal situation says strong potential of a horrid demise, you may choose actions a man not having your risk factors would never consider.
It's all completely individual. Details matter tremendously.