Angelina Jolie’s surgeon has blogged about how the Hollywood actress was up and working with “bountiful energy” on her next film project just four days after having her double mastectomy, her surgeon said.

Women concerned they may have the same life-threatening cancer gene as actress Angelina Jolie are having to wait too long for testing, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has warned.

Chronic funding failures mean Irish women at risk of the same breast cancer as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie must wait 18 months to see if they have the same life-threatening gene.

Brad Pitt last night praised his partner Angelina Jolie after she publicly revealed she has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her high risk of breast cancer.

“I didn’t take something away; I gave myself life.”