Dense Breast and Treatments of Dense Breast Cancer

When doctors look in a mammogram, one of the first thing they evaluate is the breast density. By that, they get to know about the amount of glandular tissue compared to the amount of fatty tissue.

The fatty tissue looks darker in a mammogram, while glandular looks white. Small breast cancer also looks white. So it can become hard to find the breast cancer on dense breast as compared to the fatty breast.

High breast densitycan leads to high risk of breast cancer. According to the study in the journal cancer epidiology, biomarkers and prevention found that, younger femalestend to have higher breast density as compared to older women.

Breast Cancer Treatments, you Should Know

Breast MRI

Most of the women don't have the accurate sense of developing the breast cancer. Breast cancer can develop in a women as they get older. For the women who have very risk of getting cancer are the appropriate candidate for breast MRI.

MRI uses magnetic field to capture multiple images of breast tissue. These images are combined to create a detailed image of breasts.

Tomosynthesis

Tomosynthesis is actually a mammography. It’s a type of mammography or it’s a next step of mammography. It uses 3-D image instead of 2-D image. Which help the doctor to take detailed 15 images which was 1 in mammogram. Instead of 1 image, computer took all those 15 images and synthesize them into 3-D volume.

So, these are dense breast, and treatments you should know about.