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Dense breasts can lead to missed cancer diagnoses

By Bonnie Litvack, MD and JoAnn Pushkin Nearly half of all women have “dense breasts”—yet countless don’t find out until later in life. Dense breasts have more fibrous and glandular tissue relative to fat tissue in the breast. Because both breast cancer and this breast tissue appear white on mammograms, those mammograms alone can miss […]