Dear Reader: A bone mineral density test, or BMD, measures the strength of one’s bones. It’s an important diagnostic tool for osteoporosis, a progressive disease in which bones become brittle and ...

It is a 'hidden' risk factor that can increase a woman's chances of breast cancer six-fold. It cannot be seen or felt. It has ...

Northwell Health focuses on how women need access to supplemental screening tests to find the cancers that mammograms might ...

EXCLUSIVE - Dense breast tissue can mask cancer on mammograms, but currently women are not warned they have 'dense breasts'.

I was 50 years old at the time, and hearing this changed everything.     I’d been having annual mammograms since I was 41 ...

the AMULET Innovality digital mammogram system with its Comfort Comp function designed to minimize patient discomfort during examination, and the Arietta 65 ultrasound that can effectively detect ...

Thanks to a new requirement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), doctors must inform patients about their breast density after their annual mammogram. 1 If this letter has raised some ...

Accordingly, breast cancer risk could be determined solely based on the parenchymal pattern observed on mammography. These patterns, now referred to as mammographic or breast density, relate to ...

The patterns of white and dark on a mammogram have long been studied as mammographic breast density, which is a known risk factor for breast cancer. It's within these patterns of mammographic density ...

Heat maps of beneficiary density for mobile and facility-based mammography usage demonstrated the complementary nature of mobile mammography; mobile mammography usage covered rural areas where ...