Breast cancer risk assessment tools could be lifesaving [Video]

TAMPA, Fla. – Actress Olivia Munn revealed her battle with breast cancer last week and says a tool her doctors used helped save her life.

Munn says she caught the aggressive form of breast cancer early in 2023 after her doctors checked her “breast cancer risk assessment score.”

What is the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT)?

BCRAT, also known as The Gail Model, helps doctors estimate a patient’s risk of developing invasive breast cancer over the next five years and up to age 90 (lifetime risk).

“The tool uses a woman’s personal medical and reproductive history and the history of breast cancer among her first-degree relatives (mother, sisters, daughters) to estimate absolute breast cancer risk-her chance or probability of developing invasive breast cancer in a defined age interval,” according to the National Cancer Institute’s website.

This calculator only takes about five minutes to finish. However, experts say the tool cannot accurately estimate …