However, MRI and ultrasound can detect cancer in dense breast tissue with about 97% accuracy, fortunately!
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And we can move back into the softer range that more naturally simulates breast tissue.
Logically, I knew that getting rid of all the breast tissue was the best decision for me.
That's why it's especially important for women with dense breast tissue to be vigilant about getting mammograms.
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However, radiologists who do the actual mammography screenings have long known hormone use can change breast tissue.
CNN: Health - Hormone replacement may influence mammography accuracy
If readers do not know already, dense breast tissue appears white on a mammogram as does breast cancer.
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So mammography is highly ineffective for 40% of women (those with dense breast tissue) who undergo mammographic screening.
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Tamoxifen works by substituting for estrogen in breast tissue, hogging all the estrogen receptors on breast cancer cells.
That's because it's pretty much impossible for even the best surgeon to remove all breast tissue from a woman.
Mammography, which is an X-ray of the breast tissue, is a technology that has been available since the 1950s.
Researchers say women and prescribing physicians may not be aware of the potential effect of hormones on breast tissue.
CNN: Health - Hormone replacement may influence mammography accuracy
Two weeks later, she had major surgery where the breast tissue was removed and temporary fillers were put in place.
She said she has a history of fibrocystic breast tissue, which made making a diagnosis difficult, and said early detection through regular mammograms was key for her.
Although a number of studies have looked at what happens to breast tissue when women start using hormone replacement therapy, the impact of continuing and discontinuing hormone use has not been well understood.
CNN: Health - Hormone replacement may influence mammography accuracy
These hormones include cortisol (which is related to stress), estradiol (the main female sex hormone) and prolactin (which, as its name suggests, triggers her breast tissue to develop the ability to secrete milk).
Collins, a 20-year-old sophomore at Boston's Emerson College, learned soon after he joined the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity that his insurance company declined to cover surgery to remove breast tissue to flatten his chest.
The aim of the trial was to see if it made the women's breasts easier to examine in mammograms because young women's breast tissue is dense, making it hard for X-rays to pick up tumours.
For the same reason we do not remove healthy breast tissue from newborn males (and, breast cancer in men is more common than penile cancer in men), we should not remove penile cancer from newborn males.
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While the patient is still on the operating table, a lead disc is slipped behind the breast tissue to protect the chest cavity, and an eight inch wide electron beam focused directly on the area surrounding the tumour.
Pooling data on 78, 000 women in six different practices, Dr. Weigert found that about half of the women, or 8, 651 patients, with dense breast tissue went on to have ultrasounds which found 28 cancers that weren't visible on mammograms.
She then describes the major surgery two weeks later where breast tissue was removed, saying it felt "like a scene out of a science-fiction film, " then writes that nine weeks later she had a third surgery to reconstruct the breasts and receive implants.
However, I take offence at putting a price cap on saving the lives of tens of thousands of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends with dense breast tissue who suffer unnecessarily and die needlessly from late stage breast cancer due to missed detection of mammographic screenings.
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In the study, the association between soy consumption and lower risk of death and cancer recurrence was seen in women like Mulrain with estrogen-sensitive breast cancers, and in women taking tamoxifen, a drug designed to prevent cancer recurrence by blocking the effects of estrogen in the breast tissue.
"The vast majority of women are capable of hearing this information and not freaking out, " says the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Rhodes, who is studying a new technology, Molecular Breast Imaging, that uses a tracer substance that makes cancer cells highly visible, and which she says shows promise in detecting cancers in dense breast tissue.
After years of work his team, in early 2003, unearthed a rare group of stem cells present in human breast cancer tissue.
One theory, which may explain its failure against breast cancer, is that there may be tissue-specific proteins that spur tumor growth in the absence of VEGF.
Stephen Duffy, of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund said although many breast cancers were confirmed by taking slices of tissue via a needle, so that few patient with benign lumps had to undergo surgery, the Duke's technique could be even better.
The researchers said ultrasound could be a better way of testing for breast cancer, because it would show up cancerous tissue as black.
Breasts reconstructed with the patient's tissue are softer and will age like a normal breast.
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