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    Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy

    In today's New York Times , one of the world's most famous bodies reveals that faced with an 87 percent chance of breast cancer she's had a preventive double mastectomy. Angelina Jolie says three months of surgical procedures to remove and reconstruct her breasts have reduced her chances of breast cancer to five percent.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    In today's New York Times, one of the world's most famous bodies reveals that faced with an 87 percent chance of breast cancer she's had a preventive double mastectomy. Angelina Jolie says three months of surgical procedures to remove and reconstruct her breasts have reduced her chances of breast cancer to five percent. She had the operations after learning she had a faulty "BRCA 1" gene. In 200i, New York Times reporter Amy Harmon won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about another woman who faced the same challenge.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Director of Content, News

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Amy Harmon

      New York Times

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    3 of 3
    Bangladesh Factory Collapse and the Global Clothing Industry
    1. 0:00Controversies Shaking Administration on All Fronts
    2. 8:14Bangladeshi Workers, the Garment Industry and US Consumers
    3. 44:20Angelina Jolie's Double MastectomyYou’re reading this
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