Should I Worry About Dense Breast?

Dense breast is the most common phenomenon a woman faces which can be treated if spotted on time.

Here are the things which you need to know: -

Breasts are made up of glandular, connective, and fat tissue. Dense breasts simply have more glandular and connective tissue and less fat tissue. 

Experts don’t fully understand why, but women with dense breast tissue are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer. Still, it’s only one factor among many that may increase your lifetime risk of the disease. It can also be harder to spot cancer when looking at dense breast tissue on a mammogram image. Fatty tissue shows up as black, while dense tissue shows up as white. Masses or tumors can appear white as well, so they’re not always easy to see in dense breasts.

Dense breasts don’t have a certain size or shape. And breasts that feel firm aren’t necessarily dense. The only way to determine breast density is with a mammogram. In Pennsylvania, state law requires that your health care provider inform you about your breast density level in your mammogram report because of the slight increase in breast cancer risk for women with dense breast tissue.