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First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 35 mins ago - 4 reports

El Paso cancer patient is glad Angelina Jolie raised awareness of double mastectomy

El Pasoan Alice Chavez knows what it's like to be Angelina Jolie.At least when it comes to her health.Like, Jolie, Chavez has undergone a double mastectomy. She had cancer in her left breast, and a risk of cancer in the still-healthy one."In September ... [Published Las Cruces Sun-News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Double Mastectomy, El Paso (Texas, United States)

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Angelina Jolie to play her late mother in biopic

Angelina Jolie has announced she will play her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, in a biopic paying tribute to her life. The announcement was made following Angelia’s incredibly difficult decision to have a double mastectomy as a preventative measure ... [Published Nine MSN - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Angelina Jolie, Ovarian Cancer, Double Mastectomy, Breast Cancer, oophorectomy

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Angelina’s Brave Decision - What Would You do?

Angelina Jolie revealed in the New York Times Op-Ed Page last Tuesday that she carries a defective gene that puts her at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. The thirty-seven year old actress had mastectomies... ... [Published Examiner.com - 8 hours ago]

Entities: mastectomy, Ovarian Cancer, Angelina Jolie

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Brave mum Natalie now at peace

Loved by man: Natalie Newman. Picture: Jane DysonA former St George policewoman who fought two bouts of ovarian cancer has died, surrounded by her family at home.Natalie Newman, 34, recovered from cancer in 2007 only to be diagnosed with inoperable ovarian ... [Published St George & Sutherland Shire Leader - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Deceased, Ovarian Cancer, Jane Dyson, inoperable, Education

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

An activist faces her own mortality

Social activist Cindy Cowan has spent her working life combatting violence against women. “It was a bit of a shock,” she says, to discover that instead of helping others, she was the one who needed a support circle. Ms. Cowan, who has the same rare genetic ... [Published Globe and Mail - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Ovarian Cancer, Mortality, Vagina, Angelina Jolie

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 3 reports

Angelina Jolie

On whether Angelina Jolie made the right decision to have a double mastectomy

‘Absolutely heroic!’ That was Brad Pitt’s description of his wife Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy and subsequently to tell the world about it.I thought the description entirely apt.No one, least of all one of the world’s most famous ... [Published National Business Review - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Angelina Jolie, John Roughan, Double Mastectomy

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 15 reports

Proper diet could prevent the need for mastectomy

The Maui NewsSave |Actress Angelina Jolie underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning that she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.What a mistake. She should ... [Published Maui News - 19 hours ago]

Entities: mastectomy, Diet, Preventive Double Mastectomy, Cancer

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Studies from Duke University Yield New Information about Ovarian Cancer

(NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Cancer Weekly -- Researchers detail new data in Ovarian Cancer. According to news reporting out of Durham, North Carolina, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "Polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor ... [Published NewsRX - May 19 2013]

Entities: Ovarian Cancer, African-Americans, Duke University

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 3 reports

Angelina Jolie's bravery has little to say to everywoman

I'm sure Angelina Jolie meant well when she wrote about her double mastectomy in The New York Times. Her doctor followed up the article with a blog which explained Jolie's treatment in more detail, including the fact that she was back at work only four ... [Published The Independent - May 19 2013]

Entities: Angelina Jolie, Double Mastectomy, Ovarian Cancer

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer

By Susan Gubar. Published by WW Norton & Company, 2012, hardback, 296 pages. ISBN 978-0393073256, £16.99.In the foreword to her , the renowned literary scholar Susan Gubar forewarns readers that her first-person account of suffering from ovarian cancer ... [Published Medical Humanities - May 18 2013]

Entities: Ovarian Cancer, Susan Gubar, Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Sandra Gilbert

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 5 reports

Breaking Down BRAC

I admit, when I first heard about actress Angelina Jolie undergoing a double mastectomy to reduce her breast cancer risk, I thought the decision was a bit drastic. Sure, I'd heard of the BRCA gene mutations and how it increasted cancer risk, but I never ... [Published WIBW - May 18 2013]

Entities: Ovarian Cancer, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Breast Cancer, Cancer, Ovary

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Video: Man walks across America for ovarian cancer awareness

Dave Brown started his journey in Atlantic City, NJ, heading toward San Francisco, CA. Our team caught up with him as he passed through mid-Missouri.Dave's website: http://www.ocjoan.blogspot.com/Find more videos on the$ KRCG 13 YouTube channel. ... [Published KRCG Online - May 18 2013]

Entities: Ovarian Cancer, Dave Brown, Atlantic City

Quotes

"I am pleased to report that we have made very good progress over the last few months in advancing our lead clinical program for ZYBRESTAT in ovarian cancer, in our European registration strategy for ZYBRESTAT in ATC utilizing the exceptional circumstances marketing authorization process, and in strengthening our Company's financial standing" said Peter Langecker, OXiGENE CEO

OXiGENE Q1 net loss decreases [Published Individual.com - 33 mins ago]

"I understand what Angelina Jolie went through. When you have children and you can somehow alter that possibility of having breast cancer for your mortality and for your children's sake, I would do the same thing she did."

El Paso cancer patient is glad Angelina Jolie raised awareness of double mastectomy [Published Las Cruces Sun-News - 2 hours ago]

"It is one that the public must recognise as leading to only one form of sentence."

Care worker jailed after claiming she had terminal cancer [Published Northern Echo - 3 hours ago]

...Bertrand, by contrast, abandoned her acting career and focused on raising her two children – in an interview Angelina would later say: "She was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences. Everything was for her children."

Angelina: the making of a heroine [Published Irish Independent - 4 hours ago]

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Angelina Jolie and BBC spin [Published Velvet Glove, Iron Fist - 19 hours ago]

Blogs

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Angelina Jolie, radical strategies for cancer p... [Published Science-Based Medicine - 5 hours ago] I had been debating whether to blog about Angelina Jolie’s announcement last week in a New York Times editorial entitled My Medical Choice that she had undergone bilateral prophylactic mastectomy because she had been discovered to have a mutation in ...
Angelina Jolie and BBC spin [Published Velvet Glove, Iron Fist - 19 hours ago] Michelle Roberts. Not a clue.Michelle Roberts, the BBC's worst health journalist, has taken to the airwaves to talk about Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy. Jolie decided to undergo the operation because she has inherited genes that make her very ...
Will ASCO Unlock Big Value in This Cancer Drug ... [Published EquityJungle - v0.1 - May 18 2013] Filed under: Investing There's little denying that Roche 's cancer wonder drug Avastin has been a godsend to cancer patients and investors alike. Avastin -- which the Food and Drug Administration has approved to treat metastatic colorectal cancer ...
A Few Words about Angelina Jolie's Breasts [Published TAPPED - May 17 2013] Angelina Jolie—a woman with one of the world’s most famous breasts—has explained in a thoughtful New York Times op-ed this week why she's had them prophylactically removed and replaced. Jolie’s mother died young, after a decade living with ovarian ...
The Right Decision for Breast Cancer Treatment?... [Published Our Bodies Our Blog - May 17 2013] Angelina Jolie certainly has good intentions in sharing her experience with breast cancer genetic testing and her decision to have a prophylactic mastectomy, and her announcement marks another welcomed example of well-known women coming forward about ...

Audio/Video

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Angelina Jolie's Battle to Prevent Ovarian Canc... [Published Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - May 15 2013]
CNN archives: Jolie on her mom's cancer [Published CNN.com - Video - May 14 2013]
VIDEO: DNA test reveals cancer risk markers [Published BBC News Video - Health - Mar 27 2013]
Teen's Project Could Impact Cancer Treatment [Published WSJ.com Video - Business - Mar 15 2013]
Ovarian cancer: Study says most women get wrong... [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - Mar 12 2013]

Press Releases

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Loma Linda University Medical Center Urges Wome... [Published Business Wire - May 17 2013]
Clovis Oncology Announces Clinical Data to be P... [Published Business Wire - May 16 2013]
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Boehringer Ingelheim Presents Progression-Free ... [Published PR Newswire - May 15 2013]