Angelina Jolie loses aunt to breast cancer: Should you get BRCA gene testing?
May 27, 2013
The death of Angelina Jolie’s aunt, Debbie Martin, has once again highlighted the genetic risk of breast cancer. Martin, 61, was the younger sister of Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died from ovarian cancer at the age of 56. Martin’s  death comes  two weeks after Jolie revealed she’d had a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for a hereditary mutation in one of the BRCA genes. (ABC News)
