Sentences with phrase «on a mammogram»

They also rated the density of the women's breast tissue as seen on a mammogram.

Density is measured according to the ratio of connective and epithelial tissue, which appears on a mammogram as white, as compared to fatty tissue, which appears as black.

Tumors and dense breast tissue can both appear white on a mammogram, making tumors indistinguishable from background tissue in women with dense breasts.

Breast density is the term used to describe the variation in dense tissue on a mammogram image.

Regions of a breast that comprise fatty tissue will appear darker on a mammogram, while regions that comprise dense tissue appear whiter.

Increased breast density has been shown to mask cancers on the mammogram as well as to be associated with future risk of breast cancer.

Cancers may be harder to find on mammograms in women with dense breasts.

Many states in the U.S. have enacted laws requiring mammography providers to tell women if they have dense breasts (i.e., breasts that are heterogeneously or extremely dense on a mammogram) and to inform them of risks associated with having dense breasts.

One common cause of false positives are so - called «high - risk» lesions that appear suspicious on mammograms and have abnormal cells when tested by needle biopsy.

Anyway, they insisted on the mammogram and what could I do but oblige, so a week later I went to a women's center to get it all out of the way so I could stop worrying about my «unspecified lump.»

Women with higher breast density — detected on mammograms — have more compacted breast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms at play.

Early breast tumours show up on a mammogram long before they can be felt as a lump.

Cosmetic breast implants have become increasingly popular, but some studies have suggested that implants can make it more difficult to detect breast cancer at an early stage because they create shadows on mammograms that can obscure some breast tissue.

A SCANNING technique that highlights the blood vessels that feed growing tumours could help reveal whether breast lumps on mammograms are cancerous.

Up to half of early breast cancers contain little clusters of microcalcifications, tiny deposits of calcium that on a mammogram look like a constellation of faint stars.

Denser breasts contain more fibrous or glandular tissue, which can make it harder for radiologists to spot tumors on a mammogram.

Remember, the reason these tests have such high cancer - detection rates is because they screen women for any small thing — like calcification on a mammogram — that could potentially indicate cancer.

When conventional medicine turns its attention to hormonal imbalance, nutrition and the effects of xenoestrogens, progress in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer is far more likely than it is if we continue on with our present fixation on mammograms, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.

Breast density is seen only on mammograms.

Most breast cancers can be seen on a mammogram even in women who have dense breast tissue, so it's still important to get regular mammograms.

Implants can hide some breast tissue, making it more difficult for the radiologist to detect an abnormality on the mammogram.

The radiologist who reads the mammogram chooses the category that best describes the level of breast density seen on the mammogram film.

WOMEN»S HEALTH Information on mammograms has been collected for Indigenous women aged 18 years and over in both the 2001 and 2004 - 05 surveys.

A high degree of dense - appearing tissue can make it difficult to spot cancer because tumors also appear as white on mammograms.

Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) is a supplemental imaging technology designed to find tumors that would otherwise be obscured by surrounding dense breast tissue on a mammogram.

Fatty tissue appears dark on a mammogram, whereas fibroglandular tissue appears as white areas.

If you have dense breasts, it's harder for a radiologist to spot signs of cancer on your mammogram.

Another 40 percent of early breast cancers will appear on a mammogram as a mass.

In this study, women who took EPT had an increase * in breast density (as seen on their mammograms).

Cysts will show up on a mammogram or breast ultrasound, but if there is still some doubt about their nature, a needle biopsy can be done, or the fluid can be aspirated and tested to get a clear diagnosis.

An ultrasound can also help define a mass in the breast that you feel yourself, even if it does not show up on a mammogram.

However, it can be difficult to identify correctly the extent of the disease because the cancer cells do not necessarily form one clearly delineated lump, but show up on mammograms and in pathological specimens as clusters of tiny specks of calcification in a number of ducts.

In addition, cancers in dense breast tissue are more difficult to see on mammograms.

Because cancer also appears as white on a mammogram, a high degree of breast density can make it difficult to spot tumors and other abnormalities.

Yet another, predicting breast cancer long before a tumor shows up on a mammogram.

Turns out, there was another in the other breast that didn't show up on a mammogram.

Inflammatory breast cancer tends to strike five years earlier, on average, than other types of breast cancer, and it might not show up on a mammogram.

Five were picked up on MRI, but didn't show up on a mammogram, and one tumor was missed by both types of tests.

On mammograms, dense breast tissue looks white.

Studies have shown that breast ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help find some breast cancers that can't be seen on mammograms.

Maybe you can't feel it, but it shows up on your mammogram.