Mammograms use low-dose radiation, with a single screening exposing patients to about 0.4 millisieverts—equivalent to seven ...

This new contrast-enhanced mammogram technique can help detect breast cancer in patients with dense tissue, catching tumors ...

For women with dense breast tissue, ABUS automated ultrasound scans can detect cancers that mammograms can miss. But since ...

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

Advances in medical science have brought routine mammography screening into the 21st-century.  Across Meeker and McLeod counties, hospitals including Glencoe Regional Health Services, Hutchinson ...

“The key difference is in the results of the exam: increased detection of invasive breast cancers, a superior exam for women with dense breasts and fewer follow-up mammograms for patients.

However, she says her diagnosis was delayed as two scans couldn't pick up the tumour because her breast tissue made it too hard to detect via mammogram. She was eventually diagnosed via an ultrasound.

Fatty tissue looks black on a mammogram, whereas cancers appear white, so it’s often easy to see a white cancer on a black fatty tissue background. 'Dense tissue is not only harder to see ...

"It's nothing to do with the shape or size. It's to do with your tissue, the density of the tissue, and it makes it very difficult to detect cancer on mammograms, or that type of imaging, because ...

It's to do with your tissue, the density of the tissue, and it makes it very difficult to detect cancer on mammograms, or that type of imaging, because dense breasts show up white on a mammogram ...

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.