Thread: Higher Risk Of Cancer Recurrence In Women With Dense Breasts

( How do you know if you have dense breasts or not?  I should probably know by now, and maybe have even been told but forgot in the whirl of diagnosis, but is this something that's noted on a typical path report, or a mammography report?  Is there some sort of density scale?  I don't see anything about overall density on my reports; they focus on the tumor, etc. , )

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( Interesting, but as the study looks at lumpectomy patients, most lumpectomy patients DO have rads so not quite sure how relevant. Thanks as ever for posting! , )

( I found reference to the publication of the study on the BBC website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8345245.stm, I also tried to read the original article in CANCER but it is only available if you pay when it is online before actual publication?? anyway, what I found intriguing in the BBC article was this quote: Dr. Steven Narod, of the Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Canada, said: "The composition of the breast tissue...