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Wall Street Journal, National Density Knowledge Survey and Research on Reducing Advanced Disease

Dense Breasts in the News!  WSJ, National Survey on Density Knowledge, What Makes a Good Screening Program

Wall Street Journal Reporter Melinda Beck Talks Dense Breasts,Screening Tests and the Anxiety Factor yet again.  "Women are strong," says Claudia White of Durham, CT who credits the state's first in the nation notification law with prompting of the ultrasound that detected invasive cancer, invisible by mammography, in BOTH of her breasts. Read the full article HERE.

Mayo Study Suggests a Positive Impact of Breast Density Legislation - Journal of Clinical Oncology.  Connecticut was the first state in 2009 to enact density reporting legislation.  The survey conducted in October, 2012, reports that Connecticut residents, compared with residents of other states, know more about the masking of density by mammography and are have conversations with health care providers about density and its impact.  Press Release Here.

The Breast Journal (Jan., Feb., 2015) highlights a study, Insights from the Breast Cancer Screening Trials:  How Screening Affects the Natural History of Breast Cancer and Implications for Evaluating Service Screening Programs (Tabar, L, Ming-Fang, Y--Ying Wu et al, 2015) and discusses the importance of preventing advanced disease. "Going forward, breast cancer screening programs should embrace the growing opportunity to tailor imaging to provide the greatest opportunity  to all women to reduce their risk of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.  This is motivation for recent legislation in the USA states requiring imaging practices to inform women with significant breast density that they are at higher risk of a missed cancer, and that they should consider having a discussion on supplemental imaging with their provider.  The enduring observation that women with dense breast tissue have higher interval cancer rates warrants focused efforts to determine which women will benefit from either more sensitive screening, or multi-modality screening, to insure to the extent feasible that all women benefit from approximately a similar level of screening sensitivity."

Download the full study 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.

     
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