Melissa in the Morning: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

According to American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, except for skin cancers. It accounts for about 30% of all new female cancers each year. Recently, actress, Olivia Munn, made a public statement encouraging women to get a breast cancer risk score. But what is this assessment? When should women start getting their score? And where do we get the assessment done? For all the details, we spoke with Hartford HealthCare Genetic Counselor, Susan Capasso, at St. Vincent’s Medical Center.

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