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    Dense breasts have more fibrous and glandular tissue relative to fat tissue in the breast. Because both breast cancer and this breast tissue appear white on mammograms, those mammograms alone can ...

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

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    We’re over here analyzing the cells of my breast tissue and ignoring the dangerous intersections near my house, the organs in my body that no one has ever scanned, the threat of another ...

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    But if 50 percent or more of your breast tissue is stromal tissue, you have dense breasts, Reitherman says. If less than 50 percent is stromal tissue, you are not considered to have dense 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. New mammogram guidelines from FDA shift what patients ... - AOL

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    There will also be a summary explaining how dense tissue makes it harder to find breast cancer on a mammogram and raises the risk of developing cancer, encouraging patients to talk to their ...

  7. Mammotome - Wikipedia

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    A stereotaxic macro-biopsy is often indicated after suspicious elements are seen on a mammography (mass, micro-calcifications or focal abnormal changes in the tissues). [1] It is always used to analyse those elements but can sometimes also remove it completely. [2] It is often used when: The mammography shows a suspicious solid mass.

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.