Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to this screening programme ...

Mammograms will now screen for dense breasts to spot hidden cancer. 40% of women have dense breasts, making cancer more ...

Two reasons: For one, dense breasts make it more difficult to see cancer on an X-ray image, which is what a mammogram is. ''The dense tissue looks white on a mammogram and cancer also looks white ...

WITH DENSE BREASTS, BECAUSE THE CANCER LOOKS WHITE AND THE DENSE BREAST LOOKS WHITE ON MAMMOGRAM. SO IT’S VERY DIFFICULT TO DISCERN A CANCER WITHIN THE DENSE BREAST TISSUE. AND THIS IS WHERE ...