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The Trouble With Dense Breasts

Originally Posted Sep 13th, 2013

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

Dr. David Katz, Founding director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, interviews Dr. Nancy Cappello to discuss the health risks and basic TROUBLE of dense breast tissue. "A false sense of security from a "normal" mammogram in a woman in dense breasts is just the type of TROUBLE we want to avoid," wrote Dr. David Katz, renowed health, nutrition, and prevention expert.

"All the issues of the profession will not be solved by witholding a woman's dense tissue composition from her. We cannot expect the current standard that a patient should only have the information her doctor chooses to tell her, thus denying her the ethical and moral doctrine of informed consent," reported Dr. Cappello in the Katz's Blog on the Huffington Post.

Read the complete blog HERE.

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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.