Olivia Munn has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. She thanked her doctors and urged fans to calculate their own risk assessment.
“I’m lucky. We took it so long that I had options. I want the same for every woman who ever has to deal with this,” the 43-year-old actor posted on Instagram on Wednesday with photos and a video of her treatment 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. Still, her doctor decided to calculate her Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score and that “saved my life,” Munn wrote.
With a high score, Munn was given a biopsy, which revealed she had an aggressive form of cancer in both breasts. She underwent a double mastectomy 30 days after the biopsy and has had four surgeries in the past ten months. She said she kept it private because “I had to catch my breath and get through some of the hardest parts before I could share it.”
Munn thanked family and friends, especially her partner, comedian John Mulaney, “for being there before I went to every surgery and for being there when I woke up, always posting framed pictures of our little boy Malcolm so that this was the first would be what I would do. saw when I opened my eyes.”
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Munn was a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and her film credits include Magic Mike, The Predator, Office Christmas Party and X-Men: Apocalypse.