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What a very traumatic decision to make and then to have to go public with it must have been hard. However, if she hadn't have done then the papers etc etc would have being making reference to the fact of has she or hasn't she had a boob job!! Good on her and wish her well in her recovery.
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I don't particularly like Angelina Jolie, but I respect her decision to go public in the hope that it might help other women in a similar situation.
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If the risk is also for ovarian cancer, I wonder if she will have her ovaries removed - I think the risk for that was 50%? A very brave and difficult decision to make.
Cancer is such a bastard, I wish they would find a cure. My sister has it at the moment and my Dad has just been diagnosed with lung cancer.
My heart goes out to Angelina for having to go through this.
Cancer is such a bastard, I wish they would find a cure. My sister has it at the moment and my Dad has just been diagnosed with lung cancer.
My heart goes out to Angelina for having to go through this.
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If the risk is also for ovarian cancer, I wonder if she will have her ovaries removed - I think the risk for that was 50%? A very brave and difficult decision to make.
Cancer is such a bastard, I wish they would find a cure. My sister has it at the moment and my Dad has just been diagnosed with lung cancer.
My heart goes out to Angelina for having to go through this.
Cancer is such a bastard, I wish they would find a cure. My sister has it at the moment and my Dad has just been diagnosed with lung cancer.
My heart goes out to Angelina for having to go through this.
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But for a child to get it is even harder to accept. There seems to be more of it (cancer) now, or perhaps I am just more aware of it due to my family history.
Dad was telling me about a 14 year old girl being diagnosed with ovarian cancer that died, (in the UK).
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I wonder if they will ever find a cure - it just seems never ending. I lost Mum to cancer, and now my sister and Dad have it - I am so angry.
But for a child to get it is even harder to accept. There seems to be more of it (cancer) now, or perhaps I am just more aware of it due to my family history.
Dad was telling me about a 14 year old girl being diagnosed with ovarian cancer that died, (in the UK).
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But for a child to get it is even harder to accept. There seems to be more of it (cancer) now, or perhaps I am just more aware of it due to my family history.
Dad was telling me about a 14 year old girl being diagnosed with ovarian cancer that died, (in the UK).
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My mum went through breast cancer 8 years ago, thankfully she caught it very early before there was even a lump (picked up at a routine scan) and her treatment was very good. Her Aunt wasn't so lucky, very aggressive and she died not longer after being diagnosed as it had already spread.
My Grandfather died of prostrate cancer, again this was the aggressive form and it spread too far before they could do anything.
Cancer impacts all families, it is a bastard of a disease.
Respect to Angelina for doing what she has done and being open about it.
My Grandfather died of prostrate cancer, again this was the aggressive form and it spread too far before they could do anything.
Cancer impacts all families, it is a bastard of a disease.
Respect to Angelina for doing what she has done and being open about it.
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Already been roundly abused for my comments on her elsewhere but I don't see anything brave about it tbh. She discovered she had an 85% chance of getting a seriously bloody awful disease and made the decision to lower that percentage to 5%. She made a sensible, intelligent decision but brave? Not in my book.
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Already been roundly abused for my comments on her elsewhere but I don't see anything brave about it tbh. She discovered she had an 85% chance of getting a seriously bloody awful disease and made the decision to lower that percentage to 5%. She made a sensible, intelligent decision but brave? Not in my book.
Bravery is leading soldiers into enemy fire, hacking your knockers off and telling the world about it isn't.
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Considering she spends time with UN initiatives and tries to help more than just herself, I think she is a superb person.
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In the end she did tell us but it was a very hard thing for her to communicate to her family.
Can you imagine dealing with those kinds of issues being on the world stage.
Bravery comes in all kinds of situations. For some with phobias / fears it could be stepping outside the front door or answering the telephone! I have know peope sink to their knees and lock up with terror at the thought of doing such small things, but I have also seen people face up to situations like this.
Bravery cannot be catergorised like being called a 'genious', this probably is over used. I don't feel the same way about the term bravery being over used.
The reality is that many people in their day to day lives are facing up to situations that instill great fear in to them and good on them for facing them, who am I to comment if they are brave or not. Also I don't think the fact she could afford this procedure and others can't adds anything, that is a different discussion.
"Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”
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Already been roundly abused for my comments on her elsewhere but I don't see anything brave about it tbh. She discovered she had an 85% chance of getting a seriously bloody awful disease and made the decision to lower that percentage to 5%. She made a sensible, intelligent decision but brave? Not in my book.
However, there are many women around the world who do not have the means of getting tested and/or who cannot afford this sort of preventative treatment and most likely top notch reconstruction. For these women, whether Jolie's boobs are real or fake makes not an iota of difference. They still live under the shadow of breast cancer.
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From my persepctive I think it is brave. When my mum got diagnosed she was given the option of having the same operation. But my mum being my mum she didn't want to tell us she had cancer and she didn't want to tell us about the operation. This was because firstly she didn't want to worry us and secondly she was VERY nervous about the operation.
In the end she did tell us but it was a very hard thing for her to communicate to her family.
Can you imagine dealing with those kinds of issues being on the world stage.
Bravery comes in all kinds of situations. For some with phobias / fears it could be stepping outside the front door or answering the telephone! I have know peope sink to their knees and lock up with terror at the thought of doing such small things, but I have also seen people face up to situations like this.
Bravery cannot be catergorised like being called a 'genious', this probably is over used. I don't feel the same way about the term bravery being over used.
The reality is that many people in their day to day lives are facing up to situations that instill great fear in to them and good on them for facing them, who am I to comment if they are brave or not. Also I don't think the fact she could afford this procedure and others can't adds anything, that is a different discussion.
"Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”
In the end she did tell us but it was a very hard thing for her to communicate to her family.
Can you imagine dealing with those kinds of issues being on the world stage.
Bravery comes in all kinds of situations. For some with phobias / fears it could be stepping outside the front door or answering the telephone! I have know peope sink to their knees and lock up with terror at the thought of doing such small things, but I have also seen people face up to situations like this.
Bravery cannot be catergorised like being called a 'genious', this probably is over used. I don't feel the same way about the term bravery being over used.
The reality is that many people in their day to day lives are facing up to situations that instill great fear in to them and good on them for facing them, who am I to comment if they are brave or not. Also I don't think the fact she could afford this procedure and others can't adds anything, that is a different discussion.
"Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”
Good post John
My sister is going through high dose radiotherapy and her burns are ulcerated, she needs morphine to go through it, she said the pain is off the scale. Each time she speaks to my Dad, she cries yet she returns to each session knowing that the pain will intensify and knowing if she doesnt, the alternative is not worth thinking about and also knowing, that when she does go through the treatment, it may not work anyway - yet still she goes and has it done.
My sister is the bravest person I know at this moment in time, and so is my Dad. He is supporting my sister in her horrific treatment, it is devastating him and now he has the bastard disease himself and will go through treatment himself yet still be there for my sister.
You don't have to be a soldier to be brave, we are all different, our situations are different. Bravery takes many forms and in my opinion, anyone that battles a disease such as cancer - is brave.
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