Angelina Jolie's preventive double mastectomy is the biggest news story of the week, and Time speculates that it may help transform women's health.

The 37-year-old actress, on the cover of the magazine's new issue, looks ethereal and pensive in a black-and-white profile shot, with the big question:

What will the "Angelina Effect" be on other women?
A little over the top? Maybe. But Time points indisputably that Angelina Jolie's decision to have elective surgery puts "genetic testing in the spotlight."

The star tested positive for the "faulty" BRCA1 gene, indicating that her likelihood for developing breast or ovarian cancer was extremely high.

The influence the mom of six is also strong on everything from parenting to pop culture, so there's no doubt people will pay close attention because it's her.

However, Time also questions the "young science" of genetic screening, which prompted Jolie's surgery (and her plan to have her ovaries removed next).

"Human beings are very good at worrying - it's what keeps us alive and out of harm's way. But we're also good at over-worrying," the article states.

Often times, this can be counter-productive, and result in us "making irreversible decisions to reduce or avoid risks that don't really exist at all."

"Jolie's brave example can make us all smarter and keep us all healthier," the publication acknowledges, "But only if we take the right lessons from it."

Her fiance Brad Pitt called her heroic, and there's little doubt she is. Yet she is still only one person who represents one side of a complex issue.

What do you think the "Angelina effect" will be?

【沪江娱乐】好莱坞性感女星安吉丽娜·朱莉因公开自己接受双乳乳腺切除手术的事实而受到广泛关注。本周她登上美国《时代》周刊人物封面，畅谈她的手术及目前自己的身体情况。文章 透露，由于朱莉身体携带致癌基因BRCA1，令她可能患上乳腺癌及卵巢癌。因而在技术乳腺切除手术并重塑乳房后，她决定继续进行卵巢切除手术，以彻底降低致癌风险。

现年37岁六个孩子的母亲安吉丽娜·朱莉日前向《纽约时报》解释了她选择做双乳乳腺切除术的原因。她说，她的医生告知她自己患上乳腺癌的几率大约是87%，卵巢癌的几率是50%，于是决定先发制敌，将发病可能性减到最小。乳腺切除手术从今年二月开始，到四月底已结束。

安吉丽娜·朱莉的母亲玛奇琳在与卵巢癌斗争了十年，一直坚持到看到自己的第一个孙子降临，在56岁时过世。朱莉说，每次当孩子们谈及外婆时，朱莉总想能够解释清楚是什么夺去了他们的外婆。于是孩子们会问，是否这些会发生在她身上，自己就告诉孩子们没什么好担心的。但实际上，自己身上带有一种能够大幅度增加患乳腺癌和卵巢癌的可能的基因BRCA1。

因而，在决定接受双乳乳腺切除手术后，朱莉还将进行预防性卵巢切除手术，彻底解决这一潜在问题。据杂志透露，根据医生的建议，朱莉将在自己40岁已过生育年龄后进行这一手术。