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Dr. Nancy Cappello Named Litchfield County Times' Person of The Year

Douglas Clement, Executive Editor of the Litchfield County Times (2010 Newspaper of the Year) announces that the Litchfield County Times (LCT) has named Dr. Nancy Cappello as Person of the Year.

Mr. Clement writes "Back in 2004, on a Tuesday when the stock market yawned, the British launched an inquiry into the events prompting the invasion of Iraq and seven states held Mini-Tuesday presidential primaries or caucuses, Dr. Cappello was contemplating a far weightier matter: the delivery of those three “dreaded” words, “You have cancer." It was the start of an odyssey that, apart from a difficult, painful medical journey, would result in an advocacy effort like no other to improve the prospects for women who have dense breast tissue, a circumstance that masks the presence of breast cancer in mammograms."

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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.