Are there higher risks with breast reduction surgery if you have dense breast tissue?

'Women are dying in New Brunswick'

If your mammogram report says dense breasts, that's pretty common. Over 50% of women have dense breasts. The number one thing to know is find out whether you have dense breasts or not. There are four types of breasts. 1. Fatty, which means majority of your breast is made up of fat. 2. Scattered meaning it has fat and a little bit of tissue. 3. Heterogeneously dense meaning it has more of the breast tissue than fat. 4. Extremely dense meaning that has the greatest amount of breast tissue with ver

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: An Indianapolis woman shares her diagnosis and journey with dense breast tissue

What 'dense breast tissue' means for your health, according to a breast surgeon

Dense breast tissue showed up on your mammogram. Your doctor mentioned it briefly, maybe handed you a pamphlet, and you left confused about what it actually means 🌸 As a medical oncologist with 25 years of experience, here's what I want you to understand immediately. What dense breast tissue means: 🌺 About 40% of women have dense breasts. It's common, not abnormal 🌷 Dense tissue makes mammograms harder to read because both tumors and dense tissue appear white 🌹 Women with dense breasts have