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                  Angelina Jolie's Aunt Dies of Breast Cancer

   by Reuters

   Angelina Jolie's aunt died of breast cancer Sunday, May 27, nearly two
   weeks after the Hollywood movie star wrote about electing to have a
   double mastectomy when she learned that she had inherited a high risk
   of breast cancer.
   Debbie Martin, the younger sister of Jolie's mother, died at age 61 at
   Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, near San Diego.
   Her husband, Ron Martin, praised Jolie's decision to get a double
   mastectomy, saying it made his late wife very happy.
   "It gave her some, it gave her a lot of gratitude that she could have,
   that Angelina had now saved her own life, you know, whereas... and
   since she couldn't go back and save herself, she was very happy to hear
   that,'' Martin said during an interview.
   Jolie, 37, is raising a family with fellow actor and fiance Brad Pitt.
   She wrote that she went through with the operation in part to reassure
   her six children that she would not die young from cancer, as her own
   mother did.
   Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of breast cancer in 2007 at
   age 56.
   "If there is a lot of women out there that have a high risk in their
   family they should get tested, and if they have that BRCA gene, then
   they have the opportunity to take pre-emptive action. And that is what
   Debbie would like to have happen,'' added Martin.
   Jolie, who won an Oscar for best supporting actress in her 1999 role
   for the film Girl, Interrupted, said she opted for the surgery after
   her doctors had estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer
   and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, due to an inherited genetic
   mutation.
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