Tissue
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Both tumors and dense breast
tissue
appear white on a mammogram, and the X-ray often can't distinguish between the two.
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.
Radiologists classify breast density into four categories based on the appearance of the
tissue
on a mammogram.
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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