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Angelina Jolie famously did just that, replacing them with implants, after a positive gene test.

She also started having yearly tests for ovarian cancer, and only a few years later one of those tested positive, so she had one ovary removed.

Personally, I used to get a yearly colonoscopy after a tumour and a positive gene test, but these days I no longer have a colon ...



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