Alison Corridor, Olivia Munn Courtesy of Alison Corridor/Instagram ; Cindy Ord/Getty Photos
One reporter is crediting actress Olivia Munn for saving her life.
Inside Version’s Alison Corridor shared an emotional put up through Instagram on Wednesday, January 8, asserting that she has just lately been identified with breast most cancers and is making ready to bear a mastectomy.
“Let me let you know the story of how Olivia Munn and the present I work for, Inside Version, performed a job in saving my life,” Corridor, 33, wrote within the put up’s shifting caption. “Final spring, after @oliviamunn shared her story about her breast cancer journey, the producers at @insideedition assigned me to the story and despatched me to a breast most cancers physician right here in NYC to bear testing, on-camera. Impressed by Olivia, I took the Breast Most cancers Danger Evaluation Check.”
Based on Corridor, her threat was “revealed to be excessive,” so the “fantastic medical doctors” at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York Metropolis “inspired me to start out a schedule of yearly mammograms and MRIs.”
“I used to be ready to do that for a very long time and had no concept simply how shortly this story would change my life,” she continued. “In October, I had my first breast MRI and per week later simply earlier than I turned 33, I grew to become one among thousands and thousands of girls to listen to the phrases ‘you’ve gotten breast most cancers.’”
Corridor defined that physicians additionally advised her that her most cancers is a “stage zero,” which means it “has not unfold.”
“I’ve an early type of malignancy known as DCIS,” she added. Based on Johns Hopkins, DCIS – or ductal carcinoma in situ — is a ‘non-invasive type of breast most cancers that develops within the milk ducts of the breast.”
“As you may think about, I’ve been on a rollercoaster trip of concern, nervousness, dread AND gratitude,” she continued within the Wednesday put up. “My husband jogs my memory that that is ‘the perfect, dangerous information’ we may have gotten. For a lot of causes together with my household historical past of breast most cancers and my very own historical past of breast abnormalities, I’ve determined to not solely sort out the present most cancers head-on however dramatically cut back my threat of future breast most cancers. I’ve chosen to bear a double mastectomy with reconstruction, subsequent week.”
Munn, 44, revealed she was identified with breast most cancers in March 2024.
“Surprisingly, I’ve solely cried twice,” Munn wrote in a prolonged Instagram put up detailing her diagnosis and subsequent remedy, which additionally included a double mastectomy. “I suppose I haven’t felt like there was time to cry. My focus narrowed and I tabled any feelings that I felt would intervene with my capability to remain clearheaded,” she wrote on the time.
In her Wednesday Instagram put up, Corridor stated that she considers “this expertise a present,” including that her prognosis permits her to “do that for my future self, for my future kids.”
“I’ve a number of the finest household, pals, canine, therapist, medical doctors and colleagues on the earth who’ve proven up for me and supplied extra love than I may think about,” she added. “I imagine within the energy of storytelling. Olivia Munn sharing her story saved lives. It definitely had an element in saving mine. I’m sharing my story with the identical hope.”
