angelina jolie recently wrote an op ed harris she discusses a double mastectomy
that she had uh... in and effort to prevent breast cancer now she has breast
cancer in her immediate family so she decided to undergo testing to see if she
has been mutated gene
onion known as b_r_c_a_ one
uh... and if she does have that scene that indicates that she's at high risk
for breast cancer world turns out that she does have that even as a result she
decided to undergo
the double mastectomy which means that they've been removed her breast
now after she did that celso underwent reconstructive surgery
and she's come forward with this kind of educate people and bring awareness about
you noticed specific form of breast cancer and the specific guides you
genetic mutation right and idea i guess
that you would have miss activity
without having cancer prices do incredible damage absolutely safety
sentencing issues at hand
eighty seven percent risk in the rest of the high but yup so in the piece she
writes if i may doctors estimate i had an eighty-seven percent risk of breast
cancer and a fifty percent risk of ovarian cancer although the risk is
different
in each case
of each one and uh... and she also writes i wanted to write
write this to tell other women that decision to have a step to me
was not easy but it is what i'm very happy that i made my chances of
developing breast cancer have dropped from eighty seven percent to under five
percent
i can tell my children that they don't need to fear
they will lose me to breast cancer tissue they have kids mounting really
you know that uh... at surprising his records you have to have a prudent they
double play i'm here
but can imagine any that is caravan that pattern of you know anyone who
undergarments i ideally aditya once that literally lost everything i mean it is
it is
new nipple know anything and i can imagine
how terrifying that'd be
aunty se my back is uneven up against the wall like there's nothing like that
that is nothing in their get and i'm just gonna
disconnected
i can imagine you know the odds were against her and it was definitely a bold
decision is also available to come forward with her story i think that
you know especially in today's call cherub where and celebrities female
celebrities are applauded for their sexuality in their sex appeal more than
anything else it's difficult to say came this very feminine part of my body
was essentially taken away from me and i know that we constructed but was taken
away for me because there was a huge chance i could have this disease but you
know going back to what you said about you know your friends who had to
undergoes procedure i had a really close friend
who got diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of thirty so the case is a
little different because she was at stage three and she had to undergo
surgery and the reconstruct out the reconstruction of repressed
after getting that uh... you know that the plastic surgery it didn't
it didn't help with her self-esteem it was kind of incredible she didn't feel
the same he's a really difficult thing for women to go through we like him act
i can only imagine but the silver lining in this and and when in a time where
insurance
will literally say no to anything right uh... i her to take that
they actually insurance companies have to assist in the payment of
reconstruction they do but there are certain uh... exceptions which i have a
huge problem prices are so there was a lot i was passed in nineteen eighty
eight it's known as janet slop uh... any it states that insurance companies pay
for it was sent to me
and that means that they also have to pay for the reconstructive surgery
however that exceptions include people on medicare medicaid it also includes
it's on some government employees so if you're working for school district in
your shirt under that school district decisions chance that that will not be
covered under your insurance which is rediculous it so we find people on
medicare medicaid and for people
working in school districts because they've been very in the box in school
district
security would pay teachers like four five thousand dollars a year etiquette
downtown
so yet so we take the people that uh... religious no flat-out
cannot be who is maybe they can afford it but the reconstruction which is
absolutely necessary it's not
the idea that it's an elective choice after you've had in the second is
comical silly we don't live in that country
uh... that we takes people who are gonna had the most difficult we paid for it
and then excuse
like the loopholes
that the insurance companies clearly wanted very badly in those laws except
people like that it's fair was incredible is the reason why that
widen came about was because there was a woman binding janet who had thought you
know her breasts removed
and she wanted to have the reconstruction but
the insurance company would not be afforded had to go to the court said it
wasn't until like the late nineties and database finally decided like yeah i was
a probably pass a lot to protect women who do get diagnosed with breast cancer
and that's the sickening the sick part of it is the fact that they have to do
that
actually stocks in india
on blacks are in combat
at like that and the fact that at the fact that they have to do what i can't
even believe that seems like such luxury
so let's talk about the question of whether or not um... e angelina jolie
coming forward is for runaway because there are some people saying like
and it's good that she's raising awareness petition count as a hero art
for for you know talking about her very personal experience
we now know why we have to use the word hero and he did but i think there's
something very noble about and i'm very comfortable using them for
i dared to you enjoy julie would not call herself well sheepish issue be a
hero in undergoing this was going to
save you know four million right villagers somewhere i should which by
the way should probably do probably what but i think i think it's amazing i would
hope that i could do the same thing in put myself out there and i have respect
the hell out of her but acai i don't know that i would technically colorado
at rapidly but it's definitely noble and talking about love visa reasons that you
said
that you know for her
are much of she's could become a very talented actors are people who've come
to realize that you sent out today
but she is a smart together cares about the world fully cares about our kids in
people v_ don't make fun of ur kids all the time i got adjusted for turning out
that a la
strategy that the definitely go from around the world from the family has our
own kids
uh... works for unicef
tries to make the world safer makes those made a lot of really thoughtful
interesting movies um... and and entity m but the back to the matter is a big
part of why she's been so successful
is because she has this
ferocious
that men sort of fans men and women fantasize about and i can send it should
be
and now to sort of take part of that and tell everybody in the world here this is
very
what you're seeing is fake east this is not difficult to be with someone like
her to do i totally absolute has pulled the noble so one final thing about this
story that i found fascinating so if if you have someone in your media family
that has cancer it's
probably a good idea to undergo testing to see if you have this genetic mutation
right
but there's one problem there's only one company right now that does this and
it's because they hold the patent avenue right now the a_c_l_u_ is fighting to
you know proved that this patents unconstitutional because these
monopolize this type of genetic testing as a result they can charge whatever
they want so i i spoke to my friend to uh... went to this testing and she told
me that she paid personally four thousand dollars just to see whether or
not she had this genetic mutation so that's another problem that we have
within our health care system and we got us we gotta figure out a better solution
i love the a_c_l_u_ is fighting against that