She revealed last month that she underwent a preventative double
mastectomy following the discovery that she had an 87% chance of
developing bosom cancer.
And Angelina Jolie has now dived back into
her humanitarian work since completing the operations in April and
making her big announcement in May.
The 38-year-old was pictured
listening to Syrian refugees in a Jordanian military camp based on the
Jordan-Syria border on Tuesday.
Dressed all in black, the actress was
seen crouching down and talking to a mother and several children as she
scribbled dutifully on a notepad.
She was also seen comforting some young boys as she was surrounded by several of the refugees at the camp.
Angelina
began three months of treatments prior to undergoing a preventative
double mastectomy, back in February, and continued her humanitarian work
through them.
At the beginning of February she started with a 'Tip
delay, which rules out disease in the bosom ducts behind the Tip and
draws extra blood flow to the area'.
Then just two weeks later she
underwent the major surgery - an eight hour operation which sees the
bosom tissue removed before temporary fillers are put in place.
Then
just over a month later Angelina was back to work with her humanitarian
efforts, pictured in the Republic of Congo with British politician
William Hague following her initial operation on March 26th.
On April
4th she then attended the Women in the World Summit in New York looking
in good spirits, and on April 11th attended the G8 Summit in London,
again with Hague.
After those engagements, Angelina had her final operation, her bosoms reconstructed with implants on April 20.
Then
on April 27th, the mother-of-six completed the medical process and was
told that the surgery was a success and her chances of contracting bosom
cancer have now been reduced from 87% to less than 5%.
While she
supported her partner Brad Pitt on the red carpet in Berlin for the
premiere of his new movie World War Z earlier this month, this is the
first time Angelina was been seen engaging in her humanitarian work
since completing the operations.
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