Angelina Jolie

“Extra’s” AJ Calloway caught up with Matt Damon at the Cannes Film Festival, where he's promoting the HBO biopic “Behind the Candelabra,” and he shared his thoughts on the health of good friend Angelina Jolie.

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How did Angelina Jolie keep her double mastectomy surgery top secret? With a little help from Hollywood-style disguises, according to the Chicago-Sun Times.

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Actress Angelina Jolie, who underwent a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, is also planning to have her ovaries removed.
 
In this week’s People cover story, the magazine looks at Jolie’s extreme health decision and reveals that because she carries the "faulty" BRCA1 gene, Jolie is still at risk of developing ovarian cancer, the same disease that claimed the life of her mother, Marchline Bertrand, in 2007. 

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Actress Angelina Jolie has put a spotlight on the BRCA1 gene test with her New York Times op-ed piece explaining why she decided to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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Actor Brad Pitt praised fiancée Angelina Jolie for her decision to undergo a double mastectomy to prevent cancer.

Pitt told the Standard, “Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie’s choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic. I thank our medical team for their care and focus. All I want for is for her to have a long and healthy life, with myself and our children. This is a happy day for our family.”

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Actress Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed article on Tuesday that she opted to undergo a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer.

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Titled "My Medical Choice," Jolie opened her piece by writing how her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer at the age of 56 (in 2007) and how it has been hard talking to her children about it. Jolie writes, “I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a ‘faulty’ gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.”