BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Depending on the makeup of your breast tissue, it can be more difficult for radiologists and breast specialists to detect cancer, but they believe using the right technology ...

For millions of women, the words “you have dense breasts” can feel both vague and unsettling—especially when it comes after a routine mammogram. Breast density isn’t just a technical term buried in a ...

When a woman has a mammogram, the most important finding is whether there’s any sign of breast cancer. The second most important finding is whether her breasts are dense. Since early September, a new ...

At the time of the mammogram, a patient should specifically enquire about their breast density category - Getty When Sarah Fleetwood found a lump in her right breast on the day of the King’s ...

Cancer screening poses a quandary for women with dense breast tissue. They’re at elevated risk for breast cancer, but mammograms often miss tumors buried in dense breasts — and insurers often resist ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Doctors say having dense breasts can make it harder to see cancer on a mammogram, and it can increase a woman’s risk of developing cancer. The FDA is now requiring doctors to ...

So dense breast is based on the mammogram images of your breast, which is basically an x-ray of your breast. On one end of the spectrum, we have patients who have predominantly fatty breasts and on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When a woman has a mammogram, the most ...