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2. If a Mammogram Shows You Have Dense Breasts, Here’s ... - AOL

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   But as we age, hormones roller coaster, scar tissue calcifies, breast ducts get “weird,” and cells get “atypical.” Now, there’s less following and more “investigating”…which means ...

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

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   More than half of women over 40 in the U.S. have dense breasts, which affects how their breast tissue shows up on a mammogram. Mammogram facilities must now tell patients about breast density ...

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

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   In a mammogram, fatty tissue shows up as black on the image, while fibroglandular tissue lights up as white. ... would guarantee full insurance coverage for women with dense breast tissue to get ...

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

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   “If a woman's mammogram demonstrates that 50 percent or more of her breast volume is white—stromal tissue on a mammogram—then she will be designated as having ‘dense’ breasts ...

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. 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 ...

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

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   An example of a notification statement could be: “Breast tissue can be either dense or not dense. Dense tissue makes it harder to find breast cancer on a mammogram and also raises the risk of ...

9. Breast imaging - Wikipedia

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   Scintimammography is a type of breast imaging test that is used to detect cancer cells in the breasts of some women who have had abnormal mammograms, or for those who have dense breast tissue, post-operative scar tissue or breast implants, but is not used for screening or in place of a mammogram.