Olivia Munn said she learned of her breast cancer diagnosis after her OB/GYN Dr. Thais Aliabadi calculated her Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score. The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is used to estimate a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer within the next five years and within her lifetime.
The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is an interactive calculator that estimates a woman’s risk of developing breast cancerThe 43-year-old actress explained that what “saved my life” was the decision by her OB/GYN Dr. Thais Aliabadi to calculate Munn'sScore, which revealed that her lifetime risk of breast cancer was 37%. Those results led to the actress having an MRI, ultrasound and biopsies — and ultimately learning she had “an aggressive, fast moving cancer” in both breasts.
The assessment, which takes as little as five minutes to complete, uses a women’s personal information to determine the risk, including age, age at first period, age at the time of the birth of a first child, family history of breast cancer , number of past breast biopsies , number of breast biopsies showing a presence of atypical hyperplasia, and race/ethnicity.
When analyzing the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score, women are classified as high risk for developing breast cancer if they have a 5-year risk of 1.67% or higher and a lifetime risk of 20% or higher.for breast cancer after an increase in younger diagnoses. The task force stated that science now shows all women should start getting screened every other year at age 40, which could result in 19% more lives being saved.
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