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Olivia Munn

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So with women, our breasts are like circles and they put a cross through it.

And so multifocal means there's more than one in one quadrant.

Multi-quadrant is that there's two different quadrants.

It's not that abnormal to have multifocal in one quadrant, but it's abnormal to have it in two quadrants, multiple quadrants.

So they're like, okay, you should go get a biopsy.

So I go get a biopsy and they're like, yeah, it's a very aggressive, fast moving cancer.

And it's not normal to have multifocal, multi-quadrant at your age.

And then they're like, well, let's go back to your original MRI and look at the other side.

And they looked at the left breast.

They go, okay, yes, we got to go an MRI biopsy on this.

And so they're like, so then I was diagnosed with multifocal, multi-quadrant bilateral breast cancer.

And then after my double mastectomy, they sent it off for pathology and they find a tangerine size section of more breast cancer in my right breast.

because they look for, it's called clearing the margins.

So when they get your tumors, they take the tissue out and they want to come back and be like, okay, we were able to clear margins.

So whatever tissue sample we got, we're able to say we got the tumor because there's clear tissue all around it.

And because they did my whole double mastectomy, they were able to take all the tissue out, but they were like, okay, we weren't able to get clear margins till