Angelina Jolie's aunt has died of breast cancer less than two weeks
after the Hollywood actor revealed that she had undergone a double
mastectomy to avoid the disease that killed her mother at 56. Debbie
Martin, 61, died in a hospital in Escondido, near San Diego, California,
according to her husband, Ron. She was the younger sister of Jolie's
mother, Marcheline Bertrand, whose death from ovarian cancer in 2007
prompted the actor to have the surgery she described in a New York Times
article this month.
Jolie revealed that she had a defective gene, BRCA1, which significantly
increased her risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. "Once I
knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimise
the risk," she wrote.
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