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What does it mean if you have heterogeneously dense breast tissue?

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Mammography: Current methods of early detection of breast cancer, specifically mammography, don't detect suspicious lumps in heterogenously dense breast tissue as well as in breast with normal tissue density.

Answered 11/16/2020

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