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In Sickness and In Health: The Critical Role of the Caregiver

Originally Posted Jul 6th, 2016

Nancy M. Cappello, Ph.D. Founder & Director,
Are You Dense, Inc. &
Are You Dense Advocacy, Inc. See Bio

From the blog: A partner’s promise and actions ‘in sickness & in health’ and ‘for better or worse’ are tested in the dark, challenging days when sickness can trump ‘happily ever after.’ I am grateful to my devoted husband and continued caregiver, Joe, whose actions to eliminate grief by preventing late-stage breast cancer catapulted the education & advocacy efforts of Are You Dense, Inc & Are You Dense Advocacy, Inc. to the global stage.

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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.
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Two-thirds of pre-menopausal women and 40% of post-menopausal women have dense breast tissue.
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Adding more sensitive tests to mammography significantly increase detection of invasive cancers that are small and node negative.
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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.