What is meant by not handing out free testing is that public health care doesn't just pay for the test for everyone who wants it. The steps I had to go through in Ontario were:

My brother's first name is my mother's maiden name (Kelly), and my cousin's first name is his mother's maiden name (Coady)... luckily they sound like normal names.

Act? I'll be a goddamn international superstar idol!

This statement suggests a profound ignorance of BRCA mutations and the risks and benefits of cancer screening. It would be inefficient, ineffective, and potentially very harmful to screen a BRCA1 positive woman "multiple times a year." In the face of prevalent and dramatic family history suggestive of the mutation,…

Ironic, considering cereal (and graham crackers) was invented to curb sexual desire. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013…

I'm noticing a trend in my selections...

Yes, Halstead disfigured women. He and his students thought that when it came to mastectomies, the more of a woman's body they could remove, the better. It was extreme, but they thought they were doing it for their patients' own good.

The many merits of her medical decision aside, the other thing I think is really badass is how she's taken control of the media narrative here. She kept it quiet until she was ready to share it, and then she was completely open and honest about the whole thing. She's done the same with so many other things in her…

We get it. You don't think women should disfigure themselves out of fear of getting cancer. But it's been said, more than once now, that nobody is making anyone do this And I'm saying that Jolie's doing it may make women ask more questions about their risk factors and possible solutions. And that's a good thing.

Not coerced? In "The Rape Of Nanjing" there's a photo of a young girl, clearly a schoolgirl by her haircut. She's been tied to a chair. Hands strapped to the arms, then legs raised, bent, shins strapped to thighs, and then the folded tied legs are fastened to the chair arms too. So she is actually held open and…

I don't understand all those who criticise Angelina Jolie and others for this choice. Uninformed tools who don't understand risk estimation and say "well why don't she just have a mamorgram every six months, doyyyy?" As if she hasn't thought this through together with doctors. Ppl who actually know what they are…

To every fucking troll in the grays, and to every assholes who's saying she's insane for doing this when she only had an 87% of getting cancer:

For godsake there should be NO negative comments on this one, but you always get one lovely little troll.

What a powerful story and such a brave, brilliant woman. I have boundless respect for Angelina. The good news is we'll be able to enjoy her for decades to come. I'll follow whatever she does. The bad news, Laura, is that dumb photo on your avatar. Stop being an idiot and put up another image. It diminishes you and…

Perhaps, the next time someone tries to start a boob-centric (i.e. "Save the boobies") style campaign they can be reminded of this*. The breasts do not make the woman. Angelina Jolie is still talented and beautiful and, most importantly, a whole person, with or without her natural breasts. Cancer treatment,…

It's so easy to shit on people who are in the public eye, especially those that have put themselves there via their career choice and are horribly rich and famous. But honestly, between all the work she's done in Cambodia (no, she didn't just grab a kid and jet off) and then this, I'm amazed.

Wow! What! I don't even like Angelina Jolie, but this makes me kind of love her. A speedy and healthy recovery to her.

Just to clarify: everyone carries the BRCA1 gene, which is involved in DNA repair. It's what is referred to as a tumor-suppressor gene, since its normal function is to prevent cancer from forming. In Ms. Jolie's case, she carries a mutant form of the gene that doesn't function properly, and therefore cannot fix DNA…

A long time ago I was washing my face in a sink in Morocco. I bent down to wash and when I cam back up and opened my eyes there was a donkey head through the window and about 6 inches away from my face. It was such a welcome surprise I didn't even scream and I screamed when my puppy snuck up on me in the laundry room…

You and me, both. I feel like I'm very old when I read this type of shit, and I consider myself pretty immature.