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Reporting by Laura Onita
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s decision to make public her double mastectomy more than doubled the quantity of women in great britain hoping to have genetic cancer of the breast tests, according to research released on Friday.

Jolie, 39, having be a high-profile human rights campaign, announced her surgery in May this past year, saying she acted after testing positive for a mutation within the BRCA1 gene that significantly increases the chances of breast cancers.

She said she was going public with news of her surgery as she hoped her story would inspire other women to combat the life-threatening disease.

Researchers studied 21 clinics and regional genetic centers and found there were 4,847 referrals for testing in June and July a year ago as compared with 1,981 inside the same duration of 2012.

The study of your so-called “Angelina effect”, published inside the journal Cancers of the breast Research, credited Jolie’s glamorous appearance and relationship with Hollywood actor Brad Pitt in order to to relieve women’s fears about surgery.

“Jennifer aniston … may well have obtained a more impressive impact than other celebrity announcements, possibly because of her image as glamorous and powerful woman,” researcherGareth Evans with the charity Genesis Cancer of the breast Prevention said inside of a statement.

“This can have lessened patients’ fears of a reduction in sexual identity post-preventative surgery and encouraged people who hadn\’t previously engaged with health services to think about dna testing.”

Breast cancer is regarded as the common cancer in females worldwide. The whole world Health Organization estimated that 521,000 women died of breast cancers next year.

Oscar-winning Jolie has recently drawn nearly as much attention globe-trotting work towards behalf of refugees and victims of sexual violence in conflicts as to her acting.

Jolie was named a Goodwill Ambassador for any UNHCR in 2001 and promoted to get Special Envoy to High Commissioner Antonio Guterres in 2012. Since 2012 my wife also led a campaign against sexual violence in conflict zones.