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What defines you a true woman? It is not style, not personality, not culture. I ask my friends this and they told me it’s how they feel about themselves. It’s how well they carry themselves and breast plays a part. It defines them as a women. There is no right or wrong of what you think. It is HOW you think of yourself as a woman. What if you need to lose the thing that defines you a true woman? Angelina Jolie said she do not feel any less of a woman when being ask recently on her decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy.

Angelina Jolie had come forward to the public to share her story about her secret surgery that had happened in between 2nd February to 27th April 2013. Having to lost her mother who had been battling with cancer for a decade and passed away at the young age of 57, she took a genetic diagnosis and DNA profiling which allow patients at high risk of inherited diseases to be identified so that they can take preventive action. From the diagnosis she was told that she carry a faulty gene – BRCA1 which increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Her doctor had estimated that she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. So her medical choice was to do a double mastectomy which decreases her chances of having a breast cancer from 87 percent down to 5 percent.

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