Embracing Clarity: Celebrating the 2nd Annual World Dense Breast Day
At iCAD, we are recognizing the 2nd annual World Dense Breast Day today, a day that holds significant importance, not only for the women who may have dense breasts but for all of us dedicated to advancing breast health awareness and early cancer detection. As we gather to mark this...
What is Breast Density?
A woman’s breast is primarily made up of fat and fibroglandular breast tissue, which is the network of milk glands and ducts designed to produce and transport milk to the nipple for breast feeding. Fibrous tissue, also known as connective tissue, supports the breast and holds everything in place. When...
Dense Breasts: What You Should Know
Author: JoAnn Pushkin Breast Cancer Awareness Month is here and a good time to educate women on an important aspect in the detection of breast cancer: breast density. The purpose of breast cancer screening is to detect cancer earlier than it would otherwise be found. When breast cancer is found...
Breast Density and Breast Cancer: What’s the Connection?
Has your healthcare provider ever spoken with you about breast density? Are you aware of the correlation between breast density and breast cancer? If you answered no to either of these questions, we urge you to keep reading. Research has shown that women with dense breasts can be six times more...
The Unmasking of Breast Cancer in Dense Breasts: The Elephant in the Examining Room
By Nancy M. Cappello, Ph.D., Director & Founder, Are You Dense Inc & Are You Dense Advocacy Inc.www.areyoudense.org and areyoudenseadvocacy.org Breast cancer screening by mammography reduces mortality from breast cancer. Mammography has been a breast surveillance procedure for four decades with the publication of the first randomized controlled trial, Health Insurance Plan (HIP) in 1966, when I...
Study Shows Breast Density is Most Common Risk Factor for Breast Cancer
An estimated 40% of women have dense breast tissue that may mask the presence of cancerous tissue.i Breast tissue is made of lobules, ducts, and fatty and fibrous connective tissue.ii When a woman has more fibrous tissue than fatty tissue, her breasts are considered dense.ii Given that cancer and fibrous breast tissue both...
An Inconvenient Truth: Implementing Solutions To Screening The Dense Breast To Avoid Winners And Losers
My blue-collar dad, who started a plumbing business, instilled in me the value of education. Though he died when I was fifteen, I continue to hear his resolute wisdom which aided my career decisions for nearly five decades. My career as an educator, culminating with a Ph.D., afforded me bountiful opportunities to...
What are dense breasts? Does it matter?
There is a wide variety of how normal breasts appear, both visually and on mammography. However, one of the important ways breasts differ on mammography is breast density. What is breast density? Breasts are composed of fat, supporting structures like ligaments and vessels, and glandular tissue. The glands that produce milk...