By: Leah Small From: scientificamerican.com For more than a decade, advocates have pushed for women to be notified if they have “dense” breasts—a factor that not only increases cancer risk but also makes tumors harder to detect on a mammogram. Finally, last month, a long-awaited U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruling determined that after giving patients a mammogram, breast imaging …
Dense Breast Tissue & Cancer Risk: What You Should Know
From: mskcc.org What are dense breasts and how common are they? Having dense breasts is a risk factor for breast cancer. In many states, radiologists (doctors who specialize in imaging tests) must tell you if your screening mammogram shows you have dense breasts. Breasts are made of both fibrous and glandular tissue, and fat. Breast density describes the amount of fibrous and …
Guidance on supplemental breast cancer screening for women with dense breast tissue
Source: Mayo Clinic From: sciencedaily.com An article published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings offers recommendations for clinicians and patients regarding supplemental screening for women with dense breast tissue. Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in women. Although 1 in 8 women will be affected by breast cancer, early detection leads to improved …
Your Breast Cancer Screening Questions Answered
By: Dr. Jocelyn Rapelyea From: joanlunden.com Throughout Breast Cancer Awareness Month we receive hundreds of questions about all aspects of breast cancer, including many about screening. We complied your top questions and asked board certified diagnostic radiologist and professor, Dr. Jocelyn Rapelya to answers some of the most asked-about questions from throughout the month: 1. I hear conflicting advice on when …
Glandular tissue on ultrasound associated with breast cancer risk
By: AuntMinnie.com staff writers From: auntminnie.com Glandular tissue is associated with future breast cancer risk in women with dense breasts, according to a study of women in South Korea published July 19 in Radiology. Researchers led by co-lead authors Dr. Su Hyun Lee, PhD, and Dr. Han-Suk Ryu, PhD, from Seoul National University in South Korea said with these findings, the glandular …
ABUS as the Right Follow-up to Screening Women with Dense Breasts
By: Whitney J. Palmer From: diagnosticimaging.com For women with dense breasts, automated breast ultrasound offers advantages over supplemental screening with hand-held ultrasound. When it comes to breast cancer screening for women with dense breasts, automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is the right choice to supplement mammography, according to industry experts. During a 2021 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) annual meeting presentation, …
Abbreviated MRI outperforms 3-D mammograms at finding cancer in dense breasts
By: ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group From: medicalxpress.com According to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected significantly more cancers than digital breast tomosynthesis (3-D mammography) in average-risk women with dense breast tissue. The study compared the 10-minute MRI exam to 3-D mammography, in women with dense breasts, because …
Todos Medical Announces Positive Clinical Trial Data for Breast Cancer Blood Test TM-B1 in Dense Breasts
Source: Todos Medical Ltd. From: .globenewswire.com Todos Medical Ltd. (OTCQB: TOMDF) (http://www.Todosmedical.com) today announced positive results from a clinical trial completed at CGH Hospital in Singapore. The trial related to the Company’s proprietary TM-B1 Assay for breast cancer screening, initiated in July 2016. The trial was prospective, two arms, enrolling 257 female patients over a period of over 2 years. …
Are You Dense?
By: Bonnie Annis From: curetoday.com Are you dense? I’m not referring to your mental abilities, I’m referring to your breasts. Have you felt them lately? I’m very concerned with your answer and so is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it seems. For the first time in over 20 years, the FDA feels amendments to current regulations would not only improve …
Automated Ultrasound Can Improve Breast Cancer Detection In Women With Dense Breasts
By: Elaine Schattner From: forbes.com Recently I considered how breast ultrasound has the potential to enhance the sensitivity of screening for breast cancer in women with dense breasts. Having dense, or fibroglandular, breasts is a benign condition affecting as many as 40 to 50 percent of middle-aged women. This matters in screening, because dense breast glands appear cloudy in mammograms, obscuring tumors. Supplemental …