Why Younger Women Are Getting Breast Cancer at Record Rates (And How to Reduce Your Risk)

You know, mammograms pick up 75 to 85 percent of breast cancers. More than half of women above age 40 who had mammogram had dense breast tissue. The more dense the breast tissue is, the harder it is to catch that cancer on breast imaging. A dense breast tissue is white. Cancer lights up as white under when you look at mammograms. That that little lesion, white lesion, gets lost in this in the background. Women, if you have dense breast tissue, you need to ask for 3D mammogram because 2D mammogram is a 2D x-ray of the breast. And the radiologist will just say on the report Well we didn't see anything. That doesn't mean there's no cancer. And there are some things.

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