Measuring breast density

Women start off with breasts that are predominately full of milk-producing glandular tissue (“dense tissue”). That tissue slowly changes to fat as the woman ages with an acceleration in that change over menopause.

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Breast density in quantifying breast cancer risk

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Breast Density

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How is breast density determined?

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