Awareness of Jolie’s preventive mastectomy not linked to greater knowledge of breast cancer risk
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
A new study has found that while three out of four Americans were aware that Angelina Jolie had undergone a preventive double mastectomy, awareness of her story was not associated with an increased understanding of breast cancer risk. The study surveyed more than 2,500 adults nationwide three weeks after Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed that she had undergone the surgery because she carried a rare genetic mutation of the BRCA1 gene and had a family history of cancer.