As a breast imager, I see thousands of patients’ mammograms every year. All are different from each other; some breasts are large, some are small. Some are round, some are thin. In mammography, those differences don’t really matter that much. We are still able to find breast cancers and find them early even with these differences and even before the patient or the doctor can feel them. But there is one single anatomical characteristic of the breast that does influence how accurately we can interpret the mammogram and that is Breast Density.
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