Actress Olivia Munn credits breast cancer risk-assessment score for saving her life

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Actress Olivia Munn credits breast cancer risk-assessment score for saving her life
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Olivia Munn claims that her breast cancer risk assessment score helped save her life. What is the score and why is it important? Experts shared keen insights.

Olivia Munn claims that her breast cancer risk-assessment score helped save her life. The actress, 43, shared on social media this week that the score helped detect her breast cancer just months after she had a negative mammogram and tested negative on several genetic tests. The high-risk score prompted Munn’s physician to send her for further evaluations — including an MRI and ultrasound that detected cancer in both breasts, according to her Instagram post on Wednesday.

calculates the woman’s 'absolute breast cancer risk,' which the organization defines on its website as the 'chance or probability of developing invasive breast cancer in a defined age interval.' The risk calculator tool looks at several factors, including age, race, medical history and reproductive history. It also looks at the presence of a family history of breast cancer among first-degree relatives, such as mothers, sisters and daughters.

. The tool is not accurate when it comes to estimating the risk in women who tested positive for the breast cancer-producing mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2, those with a history of invasive or in situ breast cancer , and certain subgroups, according to the NCI.

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