Brooke Nickel receives fellowship funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). She is on the Executive Committee for Wiser Healthcare and the Scientific Committee of the ...

Question: I just had a mammogram, and I was told that I have dense breast tissue. What does that mean? Answer: About half of women are considered to have dense breasts, based on the appearance of ...

About half of women over 40 have dense breasts. The denser the breast tissue, the more difficult it is to spot cancer on a standard mammogram. Having dense breast tissue can make it harder to detect ...

The ACR recommends most women have yearly mammograms starting at age 40. Breast cancer awareness campaigns often focus on mammograms and self-exams. But there's another critical piece of the puzzle ...

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime—and in 2022, I became one of them. At age 46, I thought I was doing everything right: I didn’t smoke, rarely drank, exercised, ...

THIS GLOBAL MOVEMENT. YEAH, I DID, AND WHAT SHE TOLD ME AND WHAT RESEARCHERS SAY IS THAT SOME CANCERS CAN BE MISSED ON MAMMOGRAMS, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN WITH DENSE BREAST TISSUE. NOW, YOU SAID THE ...

Are your boobs keeping secrets? Today is “World Dense Breast Day,” raising awareness for a trait that increases cancer risk and makes tumors harder to detect using traditional screening methods — and ...

Have you ever found yourself frustrated by Excel’s inability to handle ties in rankings without creating gaps in the sequence? Imagine analyzing employee salaries or sales performance, only to ...

Enhanced imaging in addition to mammograms can triple the detection of breast cancers in women with dense breasts, according to a new study. The research, published Wednesday in The Lancet, estimates ...