Contrast-enhanced mammography identified three times as many tumors as ultrasound scans. But it is not widely used for ...

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

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 ...

It also makes it harder for clinicians to spot cancer in a ... breasts obscure tumors on a mammogram because the fibroglandular tissue — like cancer — looks white on the screen.