When Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed that she had secretly undergone a double mastectomy, the Academy Award-winning actress and humanitarian sparked a debate on a topic that affects millions of women around the world. Jolie had been diagnosed with a mutated BRCA1 gene, a mutation that dramatically increased her chances for
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