Having ‘Dense Breasts’ Could Require Additional Cancer Screenings

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – When a mammogram report says, “you have dense breasts,” do you know what that means?
It’s an issue for 40 percent of all women. Many don’t know they have it or if they do, they don’t really know what it means.
For some of them, not knowing could mean missing an early diagnosis of breast cancer.
Dense breasts have more glandular and connective tissue, which can hide small abnormalities on mammogram.
Currently, 23 states have laws to inform w