(NaturalNews) In a New York Times op-ed explaining her decision to have both of her breasts surgically removed even though she doesn't have breast cancer,
Angelina Jolie cited risk numbers as key to her decision. She said that
doctors told her she had an "87% risk of breast cancer." Her solution?
Undergo three months of surgical procedures and have her breasts cut
out.
Problem solved, right? With her breasts removed, she says
her risk of breast cancer is now reduced to a mere 5 percent. The same
bizarre logic can also be applied to men who cut off their testicles to
"prevent testicular cancer" or people who cut out their colons to
"prevent colorectal cancer." But that would be insane, so nobody does
that, because one of the most basic principles of medicine is that you
don't subject patients to the considerable risks and costs of surgery
and anesthesia to remove organs that have no disease!
But the really sad part about all this is that Angelina Jolie was lied to.
She didn't have an 87% risk of breast cancer in the first place. All
the women reading her NYT op-ed piece are also being lied to. Here's
why...
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