With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, women are reminded to make sure they are getting their annual mammograms. For those who might discover during a mammogram that they have dense breast ...

Our breasts are composed of three kinds of tissue: glandular (the milk glands and ducts), connective (the fibrous tissue that surrounds the ducts and glands), and fatty tissue. The younger we are, the ...

Half of women who undergo mammograms have dense breast tissue that can obscure calcifications and tumors, putting them at greater risk of false reassurances that they’re cancer-free. Until now, those ...

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Nearly half of women over 40 have what doctors consider dense breast tissue, which increases their risk of cancer, yet until now, few are told what their diagnosis might mean, or what they should do.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Sometimes a mammogram shows a woman's breasts are dense – a reflection of the hormone estrogen. "In the pre-menopausal woman, you see that very commonly," says Dr. Thomas Julian, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --October is known as Breast Cancer Awareness month. And this year, Minnesota has a new law in place that changes what doctors are required to reveal about a woman's mammogram ...

ALBANY — A bill awaiting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature would require health care practitioners to notify women whose breast tissue is dense, making it harder to detect cancer with mammography.