article_snippet: It was a surgery of the kind that Angelina Jolie recently underwent, as Angelina Jolie revealed Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed.  
article_snippet: Two years ago, Angelina Jolie divulged that Angelina Jolie'd had a prophylactic double mastectomy -- I had done this as well, in 2012.
article_snippet: What will this transition mean to someone like Angelina Jolie, so identified for Angelina Jolie attractiveness and glamour?
article_snippet: (Angelina Jolie may keep that part of Angelina Jolie transformation private, but -- as with Angelina Jolie disclosures about the surgeries -- it might do some good to discuss that, as well.)
article_snippet: But often it takes someone as public, as gorgeous, as famous as Angelina Jolie to powerfully move the conversation about cancer prevention surgeries forward.
article_snippet: Angelina Jolie transparency helps normalize the experience of women considering women own options.  
article_snippet: It chips away at the stigma surrounding this treatment decision and offers women a new shorthand for explaining such a difficult choice to women families.
article_snippet: Now Angelina Jolie has changed this.
article_snippet: Angelina Jolie willingness to share such intimate experiences means more people will become educated and more BRCA survivors will feel free to speak of more people scars.  
article_snippet: It's not often a writer finds a writer circumstances so closely in sync with a Hollywood star.  
article_snippet: But I like to think Ms. Jolie and I, two women who truly have nothing in common, are linked in our determination to be proactive.  
article_snippet: our have looked fear in the face and made the only decisions that made sense for our families and our selves.
highlights_snippet: Allison Gilbert:Angelina Jolie's disclosure about Angelina Jolie surgeries has brought needed attention to this surgical option for carriers of insidious BRCA1 gene .