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

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   But having dense breasts can make it harder for a radiologist to spot breast cancer on a mammogram. “Because the normal stromal tissue is white and cancer is white, the denser the breast, the ...

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

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   Dense tissue makes it harder to find breast cancer on a mammogram and also raises the risk of developing breast cancer. Your breast tissue is dense. In some people with dense tissue, other imaging ...

5. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

8. Henda's Law - Wikipedia

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   The legislation Texas HB 2102 requires that a certified mammography facility approved by the FDA or a certification agency approved by the FDA, shall upon completion of the mammogram provide to the patient educational materials about how dense breast tissue is prevalent and normal, and how it can reduce the efficacy of traditional screening tools such as mammograms.

9. Dense breast tissue - Wikipedia

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   Dense breast tissue, also known as dense breasts, is a condition of the breasts where a higher proportion of the breasts are made up of glandular tissue and fibrous tissue than fatty tissue. Around 40–50% of women have dense breast tissue and one of the main medical components of the condition is that mammograms are unable to differentiate ...