With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, women are reminded to make sure they are getting their annual mammograms. For those who might discover during a mammogram that they have dense breast ...

Using an enzyme inhibitor in meniscus cells, a new study was able to soften their nucleus and promote access to previously impassible areas. By softening a cell's nucleus so that it can squeeze its ...

The Food and Drug Administration issued a rule in March 2023 that requires health care professionals to notify people if they have dense breasts. Facilities subject to the Mammography Quality ...

Our breasts are composed of three kinds of tissue: glandular (the milk glands and ducts), connective (the fibrous tissue that surrounds the ducts and glands), and fatty tissue. The younger we are, the ...

Half of women who undergo mammograms have dense breast tissue that can obscure calcifications and tumors, putting them at greater risk of false reassurances that they’re cancer-free. Until now, those ...

The risk of developing breast cancer is higher in what are known as dense breasts, which appear white in mammograms, than in nondense breasts, which appear grey. Researchers have now shown that there ...

Scientists are reporting important roles for the network of connective tissue. Did scientists discover a new organ? The short answer is no, the interstitium is not an "undiscovered organ," but ...

hello in this video we're going to talk about tissues a tissue is a group of similar cells and cell products that work together to perform a specific structural and physiological role in an organ ...

Dear Doctors: Each time I have a mammogram, I’m told it’s not readable due to dense breast tissue. If these painful scans don’t serve a purpose, wouldn’t I be better off just doing self-exams and ...