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This makes it more challenging to detect breast cancer because dense tissue and tumors both appear white on a mammogram. That's one reason why it's recommended to have an additional screening done.

and having dense breast tissue is not abnormal. About 50% of women in the U.S. over age 40 who’ve had a mammogram have dense breasts. Breast density depends on several factors, including ...

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 ...

Doctors who review mammograms have a system for classifying breast density. There are four categories. The least dense category means the breasts are almost all fatty tissue. The most dense ...

“One, the dense tissue on a mammogram looks white and cancer looks white, so you can imagine, if we’re trying to find a small breast cancer in a sea of white breast tissue, it can be very ...