article_snippet: Jolie's decision to remove Jolie breasts and ovaries to prevent cancer (as Jolie detailed in today's New York Times op-ed) might sound extreme, but breast cancer experts say Jolie was spot on.
article_snippet: The decision is made even easier by advances in breast reconstruction and by hormone treatments that help ease women into menopause, which is induced by removing the ovaries.
article_snippet: The ovary surgery was a no-brainer, doctors say, and some wondered why Jolie didn't do The ovary surgery sooner.
article_snippet: Instead of screening, experts in cancer genetics recommend that women at a very high risk for ovarian cancer, like Jolie, remove experts in cancer genetics ovaries as soon as experts in cancer genetics're done having children.
article_snippet: Jolie's decision about Jolie breasts (also documented in an op-ed), however, is not so clear cut, Olopade explained, because Olopade would have been perfectly acceptable if Jolie had decided to keep Jolie breasts and to get regular MRIs instead.
article_snippet: Some made the decision to keep Some breasts because Some couldn't afford a good plastic surgeon for breast reconstruction, Jolie added.
article_snippet: Celebrities have access to that kind of surgery, but that's not the life everyone lives,Olopade Olopade said.
article_snippet: He says He worries that some of these women with just a slightly increased risk will hear about Jolie's decision and want to remove these women breasts, too.
article_snippet: To get surgery in these women situation is really overkill," He said.
article_snippet: Most of these women would be just fine if these women took tamoxifen for five years and got regular mammograms.
highlights_snippet: Experts in cancer genetics recommend that women in a similar situation remove women in a similar situation ovaries as soon as women in a similar situation're done having children .