Many of the women who will take part in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure have dense breast tissue. Spotting tumors in extremely dense tissue is more difficult than with fattier tissue. Some ...

Nearly half of women over 40 have dense breasts, which raises their risk of breast cancer. Mammograms should now include an assessment of breast tissue density.

(The Center Square) – A new rule from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires notification to women found to have dense ...

Breast density refers to the proportions of glandular and connective tissue compared to fatty tissue in the breast, as seen on a mammogram. Simply put, dense breasts have more glandular and ...

Women who have very dense tissue are at greater risk for developing breast cancer and it can be harder for mammograms to show a tumor. Sometimes a mammogram shows a woman's breasts are dense – a ...

Where the breast is dense, a mammogram of the tissue appears cloudy or opaque. In women with dense breasts, 50% or more of breast tissue appears opaque. Women whose breast density is 75% or more have ...