Traditional X-ray film too often does not detect small, early cancers, especially in breasts with dense tissue.
That's why it's especially important for women with dense breast tissue to be vigilant about getting mammograms.
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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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"It's better than film in really one particular area, and that's the woman with dense breasts, " he said.
Gorgeous Costa Rica teems with dense rain forests, panoramic cliffs, and dazzling waterfalls.
The Indian capital, Delhi, has shivered through its coldest day for 44 years, with dense fog causing travel chaos.
Connecticut, the first state to pass a notification bill, also requires insurers to pay for ultrasounds for women with dense breasts.
Minus flood insurance, Wilczewski and husband Scott are waiting to fix a leaking roof, deal with dense mold and clear the 70-foot trees that fell on their property and trucks.
For women with dense breasts, it's best to get a digital scan, which is more accurate, says Karla Kerlikowske, a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.
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But over the past decade many cities have gone for broke with dense condo and rental housing and have produced far more product, often at very high cost, than the market can reasonably bear.
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.
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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They shed bubbles of material at speeds of thousands of miles per second, which collide with surrounding dense clouds of hydrogen.
Mr. Schwarcz has been pushing state insurance departments to post policies online, so consumer groups and others comfortable with the dense language of contracts can work up comparisons to aid buyers.
And, above all, is the Berlin of 1945, with its dense political divisions and its barely shifted burden of immense suffering, the right place in which to practice an artistic game?
But even in this paradise, away from the city, with its dense population, disease and social ills, the villagers can relate to the same matter, and that residents of large cities ...
Musically, despite the mix, the band surrounds the singers with a dense tangle of jangling keys, angular guitar and a fantastic brass section, which crafts the sonorous horn line in the beginning of the song.
Tara Millspaugh, a 39-year-old who works in biotech, refuses to eat the gooey center pieces and had all but given up baking brownies until she discovered a pan that fashioned every square to come with a dense, chewy edge: the Edge Brownie Pan.
There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush.
Portland is an interesting town, small, but incredibly dense with smart people and creative talent.
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Cities that are dense with caches include Washington DC, New York City, London, Prague, Toronto, and Berlin.
You might have to do this a few times with the most dense people on your acquaintance list.
Medieval language is dense with abbreviations, because writing material was expensive and books could be published only by copying.
Starting early on a friday morning and continuing to 5pm, the event was long and dense with information and ideas.
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But they did more than just survive in the grass green water, dense with algae and other substances, known and unknown.
Siilasmaa's company is based in Espoo, Finland, a city among lakes and forests that lacks history, but is dense with the future.
The book can be dense with data, but it offers enough explanatory detail to make such information accessible to experts and lay readers alike.
The 400 issue, especially, is dense with graphics and facts.
Each slide is dense with row after row of numbers, bullet points are strewn about generously on each page and complex graphs are squeezed in four to a slide.
Not only is it dense with witty banter between Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, it establishes Samsung and its Galaxy brand as the smartphone with the undeniable cool factor.
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