Angelina Jolie said in an opinion article published Tuesday at The New York Times that she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent cancer.
The surgery last week came two years after the actress underwent a preventative double mastectomy. A blood test had found that Jolie, who lost her mother, grandmother, and an aunt to cancer, had a gene mutation giving her an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.
"I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer,'" Jolie wrote.
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