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Olivia Munn says she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer called luminal B. Here's what to know about the disease.

Natalie Rahhal

Mar 7, 2024

Actress Olivia Munn revealed she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer known as luminal B in February 2023, in an emotional Instagram she posted on March 13.

Only two months prior to the diagnosis, the 43-year-old Daily Show correspondent and star of The Newsroom had done genetic testing and found out she was negative for the cancer-linked BRCA gene. Munn also said she recently had a normal mammogram. “I wouldn’t have found my cancer for another year — at my next scheduled mammogram — except that my OBGYN, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, decided to calculate my Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score.”


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