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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

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. What to Expect at a Mammogram - AOL

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   The reason why women with dense breasts sometimes need these additional tests is because dense breast tissue looks white on a mammogram and can hide cancer even on a 3D mammogram.

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. 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. ... which is the most effective dense-breast screener—recommended for women at elevated risk for breast cancer by ...

8. 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 ...

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 ...