{"id":39389,"date":"2013-10-03T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=39389"},"modified":"2013-10-03T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:54:10","slug":"angelina-and-breast-cancer-copycat-surge-doctor-warns-patients-are-requesting-double-mastectomies-even-if-they-dont-need-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=39389","title":{"rendered":"Angelina and breast cancer copycat surge: Doctor warns patients are requesting double mastectomies even if they don&#8217;t need one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Professor-Kefah-Mokel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39386\" alt=\"Professor Kefah Mokel\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Professor-Kefah-Mokel.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Professor-Kefah-Mokel.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Professor-Kefah-Mokel-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women inspired by Angelina Jolie are demanding breast removal surgery \u2013 even if they don\u2019t need it &#8211; a leading doctor has warned.<\/p>\n<p>After Miss Jolie, 38, who is in a high-risk cancer category, announced this year she had had a double mastectomy, a surge of women in the UK have sought to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter of women who develop cancer in one breast are now asking for both to be removed, according to figures from the London Breast Institute.<\/p>\n<p>But Professor Kefah Mokbel of the London Breast Institute has said surgery would be pointless for women who are not in the same category as Jolie.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mokbel warned patients can suffer psychological harm after having radical surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Angelina-Jolie-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-39387\" alt=\"Angelina Jolie 1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Angelina-Jolie-1.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Angelina-Jolie-1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Angelina-Jolie-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Angelina-Jolie-1-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Women inspired by Angelina Jolie are demanding breast removal surgery \u2013 even if they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}