Dr. Cappello's Blog Post: The Collateral Damage of Being at Average Risk of Breast Cancer and Having Dense Breasts

From the Blog:  "All too often, health care providers write off the issue of dense breast tissue and screening beyond the mammogram in discussions with average-risk women, dismissing the masking effect of dense breast tissue.  The masking of dense breast tissue, resulting in a missed positive cancer, seldom receives the concern as the harms of a false positive."

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