Eight years ago Nancy Cappello got mad -- really mad. Women in Connecticut, New York, Texas, Virginia and elsewhere can be thankful she channeled her anger. Their lives may depend on it. Cappello, ...

With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, women are reminded to make sure they are getting their annual mammograms. For those who might discover during a mammogram that they have dense breast ...

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More than 40% of women have dense breast tissue. Here’s why mammography falls short—and how dense breast imaging is reshaping ...

Women in Virginia are becoming more aware of a health issue that can come to light during their annual mammograms. Thanks to the efforts of a committed group of breast cancer advocates that included a ...

The Food and Drug Administration issued a rule in March 2023 that requires health care professionals to notify people if they have dense breasts. Studies have shown dense breast tissue can make it ...

The Food and Drug Administration issued a rule in March 2023 that requires health care professionals to notify people if they have dense breasts. Facilities subject to the Mammography Quality ...

Half of women who undergo mammograms have dense breast tissue that can obscure calcifications and tumors, putting them at greater risk of false reassurances that they’re cancer-free. Until now, those ...

Some women face a special risk of breast cancer. These women have dense breast tissue, and they need to work with their physicians to be aware of this risk and to take extra steps to detect breast ...

A bill awaiting Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s signature would require health care practitioners to notify women whose breast tissue is dense, making it harder to detect cancer with mammography. Supporters say ...

Our breasts are composed of three kinds of tissue: glandular (the milk glands and ducts), connective (the fibrous tissue that surrounds the ducts and glands), and fatty tissue. The younger we are, the ...