Angelina Jolie: Why I chose surgery again

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against cancer.

Writing in the New York Times yesterday, Jolie said she had the surgery last week as she carries the ‘faulty’ BRCA1 gene that gave her a 50% risk of developing ovarian cancer.

Two years ago, Jolie, whose mother died of ovarian cancer in 2007, had a double mastectomy.