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Awesome Are You Dense 7th Annual MusicFest Benefit

Heartfelt thanks to our sponsors, volunteers, and supporters for another AWESOME MusicFest to support our Mission to prevent missed, delayed and advanced stage cancers in Dense Breasts. I was honored to present the Champion Award to Governor Jodi Rell, the first Governor who signed a breast density reporting law in my state of Connecticut and the Esther Award to the incredible Mary Ann Wasil for her relentless pursuit of Breast Health through the Get in Touch Foundation.

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GE Healthcare & Dr. Nancy M. Cappello Presents An Evening to Benefit Are You Dense Inc

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Thanks to our Pink Ribbon Partners

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Tickets HERE

Don't miss Waterbury CT's own Kenny James, Star Search Grand Champion! 

Arti Dixson, Marion Meadows and more....

Auction/Raffle/Phenomenal Entertainment

For VIP ticket holders join the Post Performance VIPink Reception with phenomenal artist: Michael Coppola 

Be a Sponsor of our MusicFest which supports our Mission to reduce missed, delayed and later-stage cancers: 

Governor M. Jodi Rell will be honored with the Champion Award: She has led the Breast Density Reporting Efforts as the FIRST Governor to sign a Breast Density Reporting bill into Law in 2009.  From 1 to 22 in 6 years....and growing.

Mary Ann Wasil Nilon will be honored with the Esther Award.  Mary Ann is the Founder & CEO of The Get in Touch Foundation, a Connecticut non profit with global impact, that provides breast health initiatives to educate girls and guys of all ages to get in touch in the crusade against breast cancer.

Video of Kenny here.

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What is Dense Breast Tissue?

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  • Are You Dense? Fact #1:

    Breast density is one of the strongest predictors of the failure of mammography screening to detect cancer.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #2:

    Two-thirds of pre-menopausal women and 40% of post-menopausal women have dense breast tissue. 

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #3:

    Adding more sensitive tests to mammography significantly increase detection of invasive cancers that are small and node negative.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #4:

    American College of Radiology describes women with "Dense Breast Tissue" as having a higher than average risk of Breast Cancer.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #5:

    While a mammogram detects 98% of cancers in women with fatty breasts, it finds only 48% in women with dense breasts.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #6:

    A woman at average risk and a woman at high risk have an EQUAL chance of having their cancer masked by mammogram.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #7:

    Women with dense breasts who had breast cancer have a four times higher risk of recurrence than women with less-dense breasts.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #8:

    A substantial proportion of Breast Cancer can be attributed to high breast density alone.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #9:

    Cancer turns up five times more often in women with extremely dense breasts than those with the most fatty tissue.

     
  • Are You Dense? Fact #10

    There are too many women who are unaware of their breast density, believe their “Happy Gram” when it reports no significant findings and are at risk of receiving a later stage cancer diagnosis.

     
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