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2. Women are being notified that they need to take action if ...

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   In 2023, the FDA published a rule stating that mammogram reports sent to patients must include breast density, which should be described as either "not dense" or "dense." It took effect on Sept ...

3. Your Next Mammogram Will Come With A Test For Breast ... - AOL

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   Again, there’s no way for you to know if you have dense breasts without a mammogram. But if 50 percent or more of your breast tissue is stromal tissue, you have dense breasts, Reitherman says ...

4. Mammogram facilities must now tell patients about breast ...

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   All women who undergo breast cancer screening with a mammogram in the U.S. must now find out if they have dense breasts — a risk factor for developing breast cancer.. Starting Tuesday, Sept. 10 ...

5. New mammogram guidelines from FDA shift what patients ... - AOL

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   Mammograms, a type of X-ray, have a harder time detecting cancer in dense breasts. In a mammogram, fatty tissue shows up as black on the image, while fibroglandular tissue lights up as white ...

6. Dense breasts can make it harder to spot cancer on a mammogram

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   Two reasons: For one, dense breasts make it more difficult to see cancer on an X-ray image, which is what a mammogram is. “The dense tissue looks white on a mammogram and cancer also looks white on a mammogram,” said Dr. Wendie Berg of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and chief scientific adviser to DenseBreast-info.org.

7. What to Expect at a Mammogram - AOL

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   The best preparation for a mammogram is the hardest: “Relax!” Margolies says. ... “These are often recommended if one has dense breasts,” says Margolies. “Dense breasts are normal, and ...

8. Breast cancer screening - Wikipedia

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   Breast density is assessed by mammography and expressed as a percentage of the mammogram occupied by radiologically dense tissue (percent mammographic density or PMD). [23] About half of middle-aged women have dense breasts, and breasts generally become less dense as they age. Higher breast density is an independent risk factor for breast cancer.

9. Women will soon be notified about their breast density after ...

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   One is that breast density can make it more difficult to spot a cancer on a mammogram, because dense breast tissue – the glandular elements and connective tissue supporting elements – looks ...