What Having Dense Breasts Means And What You Can Do About It
Tetra Images via Getty Images A new FDA rule says health care providers have to tell patients that they have dense breasts, which are a breast cancer risk factor. “The first reason is that women with dense breasts have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women with non-dense breasts,” she said. This is because breast cancer, which typically looks white on a mammogram, can be ‘masked’ on a mammogram by dense breast tissue, which also looks white on a mammogram,” Feigin added. According to Kamal, “Forty percent of mammograms demonstrate dense breast tissue, and we know that that increases the risk of breast cancer by one-and-a-half to twofold.” There are two categories of dense breasts: heterogeneously dense and extremely dense, according to Dr. Wendie Berg, a professor of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the chief scientific advisor for Dense Breast-Info.
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