Tissue
in example sentence
Radiologists classify breast density into four categories based on the appearance of the
tissue
on a mammogram.
More example sentences with word tissue
Two-thirds of women in their 40s have dense breast tissue, which is why mammography doesn't work as well in them.
And although breast density generally declines with age, up to a third of women retain dense breast
tissue
for years after menopause.
Both tumors and dense breast
tissue
appear white on a mammogram, and the X-ray often can't distinguish between the two.
Mammography relies on differences in the appearance of the tumor from the background tissue, and we've seen that those differences can be obscured in a dense breast.
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