chance risk of ovarian cancer. the risk is different in the case of each woman. ovarian cancer took the life of jolie s mother, marchelein bertrand at the age of 56. surgical recally removing ovari an easy decision. i sat down with four women, and what she said about over removal surprised me. i was in new york, getting tested. a great job, felt comfortable. ovarian cancer, well, we hope we can we ll do our best with what we have, but we don t really have a test to help you. that s really not acceptable and what are we going to do about this? what was the answer? oophorectomy. had you your ovaries out? i m going to. even though i don t have the gene. i met with the doctor, and i