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Dr. Cappello Gives Opening Remarks at "Stepping Up for Dense Breasts" Event at Fairfax Radiology Consultants

Dr. Cappello Special Guest at Fairfax Radiological Consultants Open House Stepping Up Services For Women With Dense Breast Tissue

Dr. Nancy Cappello shared her unique perspective as a well-known advocate for educating women and their doctors about the importance of understanding breast density risk.  "We're honored that Dr. Cappello will help us introduce to our medical community our stepped-up level of women's diagnostic imaging services," said Lynn Elliott, CEO, of Fairfax Radiological Consultants.  "Her achievements in raising nationwide awareness of the important women's health issue of breast tissue density have been remarkable."  FRC is the first center in the U.S. to install Invenia automated breast ultrasound by GE Healthcare.

Read the entire Press Release Here.

Drs. Cappello and Berman are guests in Washington DC speaking about Dense Breast Risks and Screening Challenges.  View the short segment HERE.

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Dr. Cappello is joined with Dr. Elise Berman as they cut the ribbon symbolizing reducing later-stage cancers in dense breasts.

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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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