'Angelina Jolie effect' on breast cancer screening endures
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- Published on Friday, 19 September 2014 10:41
- Written by CBC
The "Angelina Jolie effect" on referrals for genetic counselling for breast cancer risks was immediate and long-lasting, a new U.K. study suggests.The Hollywood celebrity announced her decision to be tested for the cancer-linked BRCA1 gene and subsequent double mastectomy, to reduce her risk of breast and ovarian cancer because of her family history, in May 2013. The announcement fuelled publicity about breast screening.In Thursday’s issue of the journal Breast Cancer Research, British investigators say referrals first increased by 2.5 times and remained around nearly double their previous levels through October."The Angelina Jolie effect has been long-lasting and global, and appears to have increased referrals to centres appropriately," Gareth Evans, a professor of clinical genetics at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention in Manchester and his co-authors concluded.There were concerns the increase in appointments for screening after Jolie’s announcement might have been from "worried well" patients coming back for another test. But Evans said, in fact, many were women who were already overdue for screening. Similarly, researchers in Toronto told a breast cancer conference earlier this month that the effect seemed to increase awareness and referrals for women who were truly at high risk for hereditary breast cancer.The U.K. researchers pointed to other examples of female celebrities who spurred increased use of health resources, such as higher colonoscopy rates after Katie Couric’s colorectal cancer awareness campaign on The Today Show in 2000 and Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer diagnosis in Australia.Jolie’s announcement likely had a bigger impact than other celebrity announcements "possibly due to her glamorous image and relationship to Brad Pitt. This may have lessened patients’ fears about a loss of sexual identity, post preventative surgery, and encouraged those who had not previously engaged with health services to consider genetic testing."They concluded that education of the general public is important in increasing awareness of, and improving access to, familial cancer services.
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Angelina Jolie’s Demons Revealed: A Secret Hospital Stay, Self-Harm, & Incest Rumors
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- Published on Saturday, 13 September 2014 16:31
- Written by Radar Online
Angelina Jolie‘s former caregiver is speaking out on the record for the first time ever, and exclusively exposes some of the A-list actress’ darkest demons to RadarOnline.com.The family friend is blowing the lid off some of Jolie’s deepest secrets, including a hush-hush hospital stay, self-harm and incest rumors.“She just liked that little bit of pain. She liked that edge,” Cis Rundle — who came into Jolie’s life in the 70s when her best friend and Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, needed help with her 3-year-old daughter — told Radar, revealing that that actress loved to dip her fingers in wax.“She was a wild child. I knew she was always going to be a force to be reckoned with.”And a force she was — with many public stories coming out over the years about Jolie’s bizarre and dark behavior, but Rundle reveals there’s even more.“I carried her into the hospital. She was in that anorexic stage…it was one of her stages. She didn’t stay, it got worked out,” Rundle said.“But Marcheline got scared that she wasn’t eating.”Rundle said Jolie didn’t fit in at Beverly Hills High School because she wasn’t into all the cliques and the kids would make fun of her big (now trademark!) lips.“She didn’t really like Beverly Hills High School… They used to call her ‘Ubangi Lips,'” Rundle recalled.“They made fun of her because of her lips and the girls were mean to her. She has these broad shoulders and long legs, she moved like a gazelle.”And when Jolie infamously kissed her brother, James Haven, on the lips while walking the red carpet at the Oscars in 2001, society screamed incest, but Rundle explains what it really meant.“The day she kissed Jamie at the Oscars, it was the first day Marcheline was treated for cancer. They left the hospital together and got ready together,” she said.“Nobody in the world knew that they spent the day in the hospital. It was like, ‘Look where we’re at now.’ But the world saw something incestual. It was meant to be ‘Here we are.’ They only ever had each other. They had a very tight relationship with each other and their mother.”Rundle tells Radar she was a caregiver to Jolie for eight years and cherishes every moment she had with the family.“She knows I love her unconditionally. I was with them for eight years for almost every day of my life,” she concluded.“I cherish every moment I got to be with her. I’m so proud of her.”
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Newlywed Angelina Jolie Arrives in Malta After Her Wedding to Brad Pitt - See Her Wedding Ring!
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- Published on Saturday, 30 August 2014 12:55
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie flashes her wedding ring for the first time as she enjoys a boat ride in Gozo, Malta on Friday (August 29).The 39-year-old actress arrived in the country to presumably begin filming By the Sea with her new hubby Brad Pitt! Also seen on the boat with Angelina were her daughters Shiloh and Vivienne (not pictured).In case you missed the amazing news, Angelina and Brad got married this past weekend in France in a surprise wedding ceremony. The couple’s six kids were part of the ceremony in a big way. In all, twenty-two guests were invited to the affair.
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Pat O'Brien Recalls the Time Angelina Jolie Was "Really Horny" Looking For a Random Guy In an Elevator
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- Published on Friday, 22 August 2014 10:53
- Written by US magazine
An elevator incident that almost eclipses Solange-Gate! Pat O'Brien claims in his memoir I'll Be Right Back After This that Angelina Jolie once told him in an elevator that she was "really horny" and on a man hunt after splitting from Billy Bob Thornton in 2002.In a snippet of the tell-all, obtained by the Daily Mail, the former Access Hollywood host claims the elevator run-in with Jolie occurred over a decade ago at Beverly Hills hotel L'Ermitage. "I said, 'What's up baby?'” O'Brien recalled of bumping into the Oscar winner. Jolie's response? "I'm trying to find this guy I kind of know because I'm really horny right now.'" Seemingly unfazed, O'Brien writes, "I joked that she had my number and we laughed." Aside from that reportedly amazing moment, the memoir also details the time Jolie's dad Jon Voight pleaded to O'Brien, during an interview with Access Hollywood in 2002, for his estranged daughter to seek help for her "serious mental problems."The TV host says Voight told him during a coffee meeting, "I want to talk to you about my daughter. I'm brokenhearted. That's the reason I'm here. I feel I can trust you as a journalist." O'Brien's book, which is available now, also touches upon his past substance abuse issues.
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Malaysia Airlines crash: Angelina Jolie "devastated and saddened" by the disaster
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- Published on Friday, 18 July 2014 11:21
- Written by Mirror
Angelina Jolie said she was "devastated and saddened" to hear of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.Nine Britons were among the 298 people killed when the plane crashed yesterday.Flight MH17 was said by eyewitnesses to have "exploded" after it was reportedly shot down by a ground-to-air missile.Hollywood star Jolie was one of thousands to take to Twitter to offer their condolences to the victims of those who died.The US has banned its airlines from flying over the region following the crash, with the White House calling on Russia to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine.Washington has also called for a "prompt and impartial" investigation into what happened.No group has claimed responsibility for the disaster, which has been blamed on separatist rebels.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has accused rebels of involvement in the crash, which is thought to have been caused by a surface to air missile.Those on board included nine British citizens, 154 Dutch passengers, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, four from Germany, four from Belgium, three from the Philippines, and one from Canada.
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