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Diagnosed with ‘dense breasts’? You may need more than a mammogram

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Dr. Olena Weaver, wearing a white coat and glasses, looks at two sets of mammogram images on a computer screen. The one on the left has a lot of silvery structures; the other is mostly dark gray with just a few bright spots.

Dr. Olena Weaver of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston looks at mammogram imagery. The regular mammogram on the left shows a woman with dense breast tissue; on the right is a contrast-enhanced mammogram. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption

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Joy, a 46-year-old in Pittsburgh, recalls being the same age as her teenage boys, when her own mother diligently got cancer screenings. "She had her mammograms every year," Joy says.

But, Joy thinks her mother likely had "dense breasts," as she does. That means more concentrated clusters of glands and tissue, as opposed to fat. So the 2D, black-and-white images of a typical mammogram x-ray likely didn't catch the tumor her mom had until it had grown big enough to feel.

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