Brad Pitt has praised his partner Angelina Jolie for having a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of contracting breast cancer from 87% to 5%.
The actor, 49, supported Angelina, 37, through three months of treatment after she discovered she was a carrier of the BRCA1 gene.
'Having witnessed this decision first hand, I find Angie's choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic,' Brad tells the Evening Standard.
'I thank our medical team for their care and focus. All I want is for her to have a long and healthy life, with myself and our children. This is a happy day for our family.'
Angelina revealed yesterday that she also has a 50% chance of developing ovarian cancer, which her mother Marcheline Bertrand lost her life to in 2007.
The mum-of-six is now expected to undergo a hysterectomy and oophorectomy - removing the ovaries - to avoid the same fate.
'My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms,' Angelina writes in the New York Times.
'But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
'We often speak of "mummy's mummy," and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us.'
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