http://www.firstpost.com Firstpost Sun, 26 May 2013 05:11:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/why-angelina-jolies-mastectomy-made-jennifer-aniston-cry-805637.html#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 09:41:59 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=805637 Jennifer Aniston reportedly cried after reading about her former husband Brad Pitt's current partner Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/why-angelina-jolies-mastectomy-made-jennifer-aniston-cry-805637.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/world/uk-tries-out-new-model-for-gene-testing-in-cancer-patients-799939.html#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 20:45:53 +0000 FP Staff http://www.firstpost.com/politics/uk-tries-out-new-model-for-gene-testing-in-cancer-patients-799939.html LONDON (Reuters) - Britain launched a research programme on Monday that should eventually allow all cancer patients to have access to the kind of genetic analysis that led Hollywood star Angelina Jolie to decide to undergo a double mastectomy. The project, involving the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London, the U.S. gene sequencing firm Illumina ( ILMN.O ), geneticists and cancer doctors, aims to find a way to allow more cancer genes be tested in more people. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/world/uk-tries-out-new-model-for-gene-testing-in-cancer-patients-799939.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/angelina-jolie-to-play-her-own-mother-in-biopic-799669.html#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:15:42 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=799669 Hollywood star Angelina Jolie will essay the role of her own mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died from ovarian cancer in 2007, in a new biopic.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/angelina-jolie-to-play-her-own-mother-in-biopic-799669.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/business/did-corporate-pr-death-paranoia-prompt-jolies-mastectomy-797091.html#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 05:50:11 +0000 FP Editors http://www.firstpost.com/?p=797091 A section of experts, attributing Jolie’s decision to Americans’ heightened fear of death, claims that Jolie’s decision was entirely a corporate PR exercise for Myriad Genetics, the company that is in the middle of a court battle to get patent for the human gene BRAC1.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/business/did-corporate-pr-death-paranoia-prompt-jolies-mastectomy-797091.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/angelina-jolies-brother-proud-of-her-789937.html#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 17:38:24 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=789937 Hollywood star Angelina Jolie's brother James Haven feels honoured to be her sibling because of the difference she tries to make in the world. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/angelina-jolies-brother-proud-of-her-789937.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/living/in-india-even-cancer-patients-dont-want-to-go-for-mastectomy-786901.html#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 02:06:17 +0000 Pallavi http://www.firstpost.com/?p=786901 In India, mastectomy is a big stigma. So much so, even patients who are diagnosed with cancer don’t want to opt for it. They accept it with great difficulty, say doctors. ]]> http://www.firstpost.com/living/in-india-even-cancer-patients-dont-want-to-go-for-mastectomy-786901.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/unlike-jolie-indian-women-wary-of-mastectomy-say-doctors-786655.html#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 20:45:08 +0000 fwire http://www.firstpost.com/politics/unlike-jolie-indian-women-wary-of-mastectomy-say-doctors-786655.html http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/unlike-jolie-indian-women-wary-of-mastectomy-say-doctors-786655.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/living/jolie-mastectomy-we-love-breasts-yet-we-dont-take-them-seriously-785889.html#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 14:30:31 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=785889 Angelina’s decision to cut off body parts to prevent a disease seems rather brutal, but it’s something intensely personal.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/living/jolie-mastectomy-we-love-breasts-yet-we-dont-take-them-seriously-785889.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/living/angelina-jolies-breast-surgery-possible-in-india-but-theres-a-catch-784685.html#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 09:03:57 +0000 G Pramod Kumar http://www.firstpost.com/?p=784685 So can we test in India and gain from the same treatment privilege that Jolie had? Yes, but there is a catch.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/living/angelina-jolies-breast-surgery-possible-in-india-but-theres-a-catch-784685.html/feed 0 http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/angies-decision-to-have-a-double-mastectomy-was-heroic-brad-pitt-784329.html#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 07:26:52 +0000 hidden http://www.firstpost.com/?p=784329 Brad Pitt has called fiancee Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy a heroic attempt.]]> http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/angies-decision-to-have-a-double-mastectomy-was-heroic-brad-pitt-784329.html/feed 0