Olivia Munn recently took to her Instagram to share that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Her caption read, “I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I hope by sharing this it will help others find comfort, inspiration and support on their own journey.” She shared a statement on text slides in her post which began by saying, “In February of 2023, in an effort to be proactive about my health, I took a genetic test that checks for 90 different cancer genes. I tested negative for all, including BRCA (the most well-known breast cancer gene). My sister Sara had just tested negative as well,” Munn wrote. “We called each other and high-fived over the phone. That same winter I also had a normal mammogram. Two months later I was diagnosed with breast cancer.”
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The "X-Men" star, 43, went on to explain that she has undergone four surgeries in the last 10 months, one of them being a double mastectomy 30 days after her biopsy. “Surprisingly I’ve only cried twice,” she wrote. “I guess I haven’t felt like there was time to cry.” According to Munn, her Ob-Gyn detected her cancer by opting to calculate her "Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score," which she said “looked at factors like my age, familial breast cancer history, and the fact I had my first child after the age of 30.”
“Because of that score I went to get an MRI, which led to an ultrasound, which then led to a biopsy,” Munn wrote. “The biopsy showed I had Luminal B cancer in both breasts. Luminal B is an aggressive, fast moving cancer.” She concluded by saying, “I want the same for any woman who might have to face this one day,” she wrote in her statement. “Ask your doctor to calculate your Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score.”
