Olivia Munn has for more than a year been speaking out about the importance of a breast cancer risk assessment test that helped lead to her diagnosis in 2023, and she has now shared that that very same test also led to her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis.

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July 10 (UPI) -- Breast cancer survivor Olivia Munn says her mother Kim is battling the same disease. "My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer," the Newsroom and Your Friends and Neighbors actress, 45, wrote on Instagram Wednesday.

Olivia Munn has revealed her mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer, more than a year after the actress shared her own cancer diagnosis.

Olivia Munn revealed that her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer after encouraging her to take the same Tyrer­-Cuzick breast cancer risk assessment that “saved my life.”

The colorful, air-conditioned van houses advanced 3D mammography equipment. It will start offering free mammograms Sunday at a Penn-hosted community health fair in West Philadelphia. Mammograms are X-ray images of the breast that allow doctors to screen for cancer at an early stage, when it can be most treatable.

There’s something about watching a loved one go through it that is even more heartbreaking,” the “Newsroom” alum admitted via Instagram.

The 'Your Friends & Neighbors' star said she and her mom were there for each other for both of their double mastectomy surgeries: "There's something about watching a loved one go through it that is even more heartbreaking.

"There's something about watching a loved one go through it that is even more heartbreaking," the mother of two writes.

Kim Kaufman, 33, had a lumpectomy in November and started chemo treatments in January, followed by seven weeks of radiation.