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1/ Let the tweetorials begin for our #breastradpath series with @LizaMQuintana! We're starting with the basics of screening mammography for #BCAM
Each screening mammo has 4 images-2 of the right breast and 2 of the left. If any abnormality is seen then we get more images
Each screening mammo has 4 images-2 of the right breast and 2 of the left. If any abnormality is seen then we get more images
2/ There are 2 main areas on all mammograms - white areas are glandular tissue (part of breast that makes milk, yellow on image) & black areas are breast fat (blue). All women have both but in different proportions #breastdensity
3/ Check out what this looks like on the pathology slide. And just to give some definitions: adipose tissue=breast fat, terminal duct lobular unit=glandular tissue, stroma=supporting structure of breast #Breastpath 
Breast Density is often Hereditary
I don't have a daughter. If I did, I'm damn sure I'd want her to be told about her #Breastdensity
Stop playing with women's lives, advise Ultrasound for those with #Densebreasts @IMT_latest @DonnellyStephen @alankellylabour
I don't have a daughter. If I did, I'm damn sure I'd want her to be told about her #Breastdensity
Stop playing with women's lives, advise Ultrasound for those with #Densebreasts @IMT_latest @DonnellyStephen @alankellylabour
Mammograms miss up to 50% of Breast Cancers in women with very Dense Breasts.
It missed mine!
If I had ever been told I had #Densebreasts I would have had a Breast Ultrasound every time. My Cancer would have been found earlier, node negative better prognosis
It missed mine!
If I had ever been told I had #Densebreasts I would have had a Breast Ultrasound every time. My Cancer would have been found earlier, node negative better prognosis
My Mammograms 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 ALL showed I had Extremely Dense Breasts My GP knew Radiologists knew but I didn't know because they didn't tell me
Breast Density is not palpable and (Mammographic) Breast Density can only be determined by Mammogram
Breast Density is not palpable and (Mammographic) Breast Density can only be determined by Mammogram
