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

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    Dense breast tissue not only makes mammograms more difficult to read, but it is also a risk factor for breast cancer. Women with dense breasts have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than ...

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

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    In some people with dense tissue, other imaging tests in addition to a mammogram may help find cancers. Talk to your healthcare provider about breast density, risks for breast cancer, and your ...

  4. Women will now be notified about breast density after ... - AOL

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    That’s because dense tissue shows up white on a mammogram, and so does cancer. In cases of extremely dense breasts, in fact, “we miss at least around half of cancers in that type of tissue on ...

  5. Dense breast tissue - Wikipedia

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    Dense breast tissue is defined based on the amount of glandular and fibrous tissue as compared to the percentage of fatty tissue. The current mammography classifications split up the density of breasts into four categories. Approximately 10% of women have almost entirely fatty breasts, 40% with small pockets of dense tissue, 40% with even ...

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

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    Meaning, you shouldn’t panic if your mammogram results say that you have dense breasts—lots of women do, too. But having dense breasts can make it harder for a radiologist to spot breast ...

  7. 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.

  8. Molecular breast imaging - Wikipedia

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    Mammography is widely accepted as the first-line screening option for the detection of breast cancer, with a sensitivity for detection of cancer at around 85-90%. However, in patients with dense breast tissue or those with risk of breast cancer greater than 20%, the sensitivity of mammography drops significantly, with some studies reporting a ...

  9. Some doctors say the FDA's new notification rule about dense ...

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    Dense tissue makes it harder to find breast cancer on a mammogram; and that dense breast tissue is a risk factor for cancer. ... Because breast cancers can hide behind dense tissue, “these ...