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If half or more of your breast tissue shows up white on the mammogram, congratulations, you’ve got dense breasts. Here’s where things get interesting: having dense breasts isn’t a disease ...

An MRI is meant to be used along with a mammogram, not instead of. “MRI is the most sensitive test we have for finding breast ...

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 ...

An abnormal mammogram isn't always a cause for concern ... "This can happen more often with dense breast tissue, which affects up to 40 percent of people getting mammograms," she explains.

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 ...

Mammograms are x-ray pictures ... their breast density. Breast density refers to the proportion of fibrous and glandular tissue to fatty tissue in the breasts and results from an individual ...

That's because mammograms are not as effective in detecting cancerous tumours within dense breast tissue. Breast density is often inherited ... "While dense breasts are not abnormal, higher density ...