Both tumors and dense breast tissue appear white on a mammogram, and the X ray often can't distinguish between the two.

Mammography relies on differences in the appearance of the tumor from the background tissue, and we've seen that those differences can be obscured in a dense breast.

That's why mammograms find over 80 percent of tumors in fatty breasts, but as few as 40 percent in extremely dense breasts.

Radiologists classify breast density into four categories based on the appearance of the tissue on a mammogram.

For women without dense breasts, mammography is the best choice.

The factor most responsible for that fire is breast density.

But it was better in one group, and that was women under 50 who were pre menopausal and had dense breasts, and in those women, digital mammography found twice as many cancers, but it still only found 60 percent.

Now it's bad enough that breast density makes it hard to find a cancer, but it turns out that it's also a powerful predictor of your risk for breast cancer.

The second, the Canadian National Breast Screening Study, which began in the 1980s, also used annual mammograms and breast examinations for the screened group. But, in the control group, women aged 50 59 also received annual clinical breast examinations, and women aged 40 49 were given a single breast examination.

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The State of Connecticut became the first and only state to mandate that women receive notification of their breast density after a mammogram.

Breast density refers to the relative amount of fat pictured here in yellow versus connective and epithelial tissues pictured in pink.

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Two thirds of women in their 40s have dense breast tissue, which is why mammography doesn't work as well in them.

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At the time my patient posed this question to me, breast density was an obscure topic in the radiology literature, and very few women having mammograms, or the physicians ordering them, knew about this.

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So now that we knew that this technology could find three times more tumors in a dense breast, we had to solve one very important problem.

And her mammogram showed an area of very dense tissue, but her MBI showed an area of worrisome uptake, which we can also see on a color image.

First, know your density.

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You can see, on the right, a mammogram showing a faint tumor, the edges of which are blurred by the dense tissue.

Second, if you're pre menopausal, try to schedule your mammogram in the first two weeks of your menstrual cycle, when breast density is relatively lower.

The digital mammogram was read as normal and shows lots of dense tissue, but the MBI shows an area of intense uptake, which correlated with a two centimeter tumor.

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And I started talking to him about this problem with breast density, and we realized that we might be able to get this detector close enough around the breast to actually find small tumors.

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MBI generates four images per breast.

The women are very good about getting mammograms now.

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Cancer among Women and Mammograms

In this age group and in the 45 55 age group cervical cancer and breast cancer occupy sixth and seventh places respectively.

Mammograms are now used only for women recognized as at high risk for breast cancer.

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If the breast is less than 25 percent dense, that's called fatty replaced.

The next category is scattered fibroglandular densities, followed by heterogeneously dense and extremely dense.