• Dense breast tissue: What it means to have dense breasts

    By

    Jennifer O'Hara

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Molecular Breast Imaging - mammogram Xray
Molecular Breast Imaging (right) detected 3.6 times as many invasive cancers as digital mammography (left) in the latest study of more than 1,500 women with dense breast tissue. Results are published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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