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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 ...

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.

Many women in Ireland are calling for better breast care and awareness in Ireland, especially when it comes to dense breasts.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It can be difficult for mammograms to pick up cancers in people with dense breasts because dense breast tissue and abnormal breast changes such as tumours both show up as white areas on the imaging.