‘When they told me I had cancer, I thought my baby and I were both going to die,’ says Jolie, who has her own hairdressing business and is married to Jason, 43, who runs a decorating company.

朱莉经营美发生意，嫁给43岁装修公司老板杰森。“得知患癌，我想到了孩子，我们就要死了”，她说：

‘I’d not heard of pancreatic cancer and, to be honest, I didn’t even know what the pancreas was or where it was in the body.’

“我甚至不知胰腺为何物。”

Jolie and her now eight-month old son, Theo, both survived the surgery.

她和8个月的儿子西奥挺过手术。

But had she not had a pregnancy scan, doctors said, the cancer would almost certainly have killed her and her baby too.

医生表示若朱莉没做孕期检查，母子可能已经病逝。

As a survivor of the disease, Jolie is a member of a very small club. It is widely regarded as one of the most lethal of all tumours, killing around 97 per cent of its victims within five years.

她的幸存破罕见。胰腺癌是公认绝症，约97%患者五年内发病离世。

The profile of this deadly disease has been raised with the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died earlier this month aged 56 after a five-year battle with a pancreatic tumour.

此病因苹果创始人之一乔布斯的病逝而被关注，他抗癌五年，本月初病逝，享年56岁。

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