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Dense Breasts: When a Mammogram Isn't Enough
While mammography is a useful screening tool, it does not
do the whole job in women dense breasts. Women should understand that dense fibroglandular breast tissue can obscure some breast masses. I often use the analogy of looking for a snowball in a field of snow. The snowball (the breast cancer) will blend into the background (the dense breast tissue) making the snowball impossible to see. Mammography detects 98% of breast cancers in a fatty breast, but only 48% of cancers in a dense breast. In Ms. Lunden's case, her mammogram was read as "clean" or negative; however, because her breast tissue was dense, ultrasound was utilized in order to improve breast cancer detection. Click for full article
While mammography is a useful screening tool, it does not
do the whole job in women dense breasts. Women should understand that dense fibroglandular breast tissue can obscure some breast masses. I often use the analogy of looking for a snowball in a field of snow. The snowball (the breast cancer) will blend into the background (the dense breast tissue) making the snowball impossible to see. Mammography detects 98% of breast cancers in a fatty breast, but only 48% of cancers in a dense breast. In Ms. Lunden's case, her mammogram was read as "clean" or negative; however, because her breast tissue was dense, ultrasound was utilized in order to improve breast cancer detection. Click for full article