Olivia Munn has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy, thanking her doctors and urging fans to calculate their own risk assessment.
“I’m lucky. We figured it out with enough time to have a choice. I want the same for all the women who might have to deal with it one day,” the 43-year-old actor posted on Wednesday on Instagram with photos and a message. video of her being treated at a hospital.
Munn said she took a genetic test in February 2023 that checked for 90 different cancer genes and came back negative for all of them. Despite this, her doctor decided to calculate her breast cancer risk assessment score and it “saved my life,” Munn wrote.
Recording a high score, Munn took imaging tests and then underwent a biopsy, which revealed she had an aggressive form of cancer in both breasts. She had a double mastectomy 30 days after the biopsy and has had four surgeries in the past 10 months.
She said she kept it private because “I needed to catch my breath and get through some of the harder parts before sharing.”
Munn thanked his family and friends, especially his partner, comedian John Mulaney, “for being there before every operation and for being there when I wake up, always putting framed photos of our little boy Malcolm so that is the first thing I see. when I opened my eyes.”
Munn was a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and his film credits include Magic Mike, The predators, Office Christmas party And X-Men: Apocalypse.
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