How do I know whether my breasts are dense?

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GraceUnderPresure · 22/05/2025 11:00

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0gg7p015jo

I mean, mine aren't particularly intelligent as far as I'm aware but AIBU to think this is a scare headline as unless I'm missing something we have no way to know whether this applies to us?

A woman goes for a mammogram. She is pictured alongside a female medical professional.

Call for NHS to give women with dense breasts extra cancer scans

Additional scans better tailored to spotting cancer in dense breasts could treble detection rates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0gg7p015jo

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Daisy03 · 22/05/2025 17:46

I found a lump (which turned out to be cancer), was told at mammogram and ultrasound that tissue was very dense and so had to go for a breast mri to make sure there was nothing else lurking.

feelingbleh · 23/05/2025 12:19

TheBossOfMe · 22/05/2025 11:24

They tell you at your first mammogram. Mine are dense but otherwise unremarkable apparently. How rude!

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Slightyamusedandsilly · 23/05/2025 12:24

Usually, pre-menopausal breasts are denser. Post menopausal less so.

BUT if the mammogram can't read them and they don't have the newer scanner types, an ultrasound will be able to.

ShaunaSadeki · 23/05/2025 12:26

I had BC investigations last year after finding a lump and they mentioned due to me being quite young not to worry of if I had to stay on for an ultrasound as my breasts would likely still be too dense for a mammogram to be sufficient… it wasn’t the case. I came out with the all clear but knowing my tits are older than their years

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