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What Is The Dominant Fiber Type In Dense Connective Tissue?
Women who have very dense breast tissue may have a harder time getting diagnosed and being treated for breast cancer, a new study has found. Researchers say that dense breast tissue is easily mistaken for cancer during a mammogram, which may lead doctors to qualify mammogram results as abnormal. Previous research also suggests that patients who have dense breasts may be four times as likely to develop breast cancer, and more likely to develop a local recurrence after lumpectomy than women who...
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Having Dense Breasts
Source: Breastcancer.org
Dense breasts have less fatty tissue and more non-fatty tissue compared to breasts that aren't dense. One way to measure breast density is the... Read more »
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Fiber
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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