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2. Some doctors say the FDA's new notification rule about ... - AOL

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   Massachusetts and 38 other states have already been sending notifications about breast density, which reflects the proportion of milk glands and connective tissue to fatty tissue. The FDA ...

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

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   Women getting their routine mammograms may find new information on their results about breast density. ... In a mammogram, fatty tissue shows up as black on the image, while fibroglandular tissue ...

4. Your Next Mammogram Will Come With A Test For Breast Density ...

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   Breast density is a term that classifies the amounts of fat, glandular tissue (the part that produces milk), and stromal tissue (support tissue) in your breasts.

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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.

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

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   The more glands and fibrous tissue than fatty tissue a woman has, the “denser” her breasts. Among women in their 40s, about 50% have some level of dense breasts.

9. There’s a Big Change Coming to Mammogram Results - AOL

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   Breast density will be sorted into the following categories during the examination: "The breasts are almost entirely fatty"; "There are scattered areas of fibroglandular density"; "The breasts are ...