Know your BREAST DENSITY!!

It is important and empowering to know your breast density.  

A recent example provides adequate reason:

A woman had a mammogram read as dense breast tissue: negative.  She inquired of her ordering physician and he ordered another test to "see" through the dense breast tissue and ultimately sonographic guided biopsy diagnosed the tiny cancer "hidden" from the mammogram.  

If you have dense breast tissue, it is your right, in Texas and many other states (see prior blog post http://drwinsett.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-about-whole-breast-ultrasound-and.html) to demand further work-up.  In most cases a whole breast ultrasound or sonogram finds the cancer that the mammogram can't "see" because of density.  Mammograms are still the gold standard for screening, but if the breast tissue is dense then supplemental screening may be beneficial, and in most cases whole breast ultrasound is the answer.

Keep up the good work!  If you know someone who is told that she has dense breast tissue, suggest that she ask her physician to order a whole breast ultrasound.  We do them every day.  The next best thing to prevention is early detection and whole breast ultrasound can find tiny breast cancers.


Together we can prevent 86,000 breast cancers each year!


The content is general and not personal medical advice, but if you have dense breast tissue on mammogram, ask your doctor to order supplemental screening or call me: 512-451-5788