Off Beat China translated Chinese netizens' reaction to Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy.

Then something happened last spring my sister Emily discovered that she had cancer and had a double mastectomy.

Aaagh, I thought, if only I had a double mastectomy I could cancel all these things and no one would complain!

Jolie has refused to treat mastectomy as scary or tragic or as making her less of a woman in any way.

After undergoing biopsies that further increased her risk for cancer and losing her sister to cancer, she made the difficult decision to have a prophylactic mastectomy.

Her revelation of her mastectomy and the evident support of her partner, Brad Pitt has elicited a rapturous response from popular media, including the tabloids that once damned her as the other woman who broke up Pitt s previous marriage.

Good grief! I realized my priorities were all out of whack. So in some odd way, this sabbatical in Russia is my alternative to a double mastectomy a positive one, to be sure, but the same kind of reset button experience.

Good grief! I realized my priorities were all out of whack.   So in some odd way, this sabbatical in Russia is my alternative to a double mastectomy a positive one, to be sure, but the same kind of reset button experience.

And, two weeks before Martin died, Jolie revealed that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for a BRCA gene mutation which is correlated with a woman s being five times more susceptible to breast cancer and 28 times more susceptible to ovarian cancer.