Breast Density

Breast density, or fibroglandular density, is found through breast imaging and compares the amount of fat to the amount of tissue.

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published updates to the mammography regulations to, among other things, require mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts, strengthen the FDA’s oversight and enforcement of facilities and help interpreting physicians better categorize and assess mammograms

Feature | Breast Density

FDA Updates Mammography Regulations to Require Reporting of Breast Density Information

March 9, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published updates to the mammography regulations to, among ...

March 09, 2023

New studies presented at the 2023 European Congress of Radiology from Volpara Health demonstrated the important role artificial intelligence plays in objective breast density assessment, cancer risk assessment, and mammography quality evaluation to personalize and optimize breast cancer detection.

News | Breast Density

New Research at ECR 2023 Uses Volpara AI to Personalize, Optimize Breast Cancer Detection

March 9, 2023 — Research focused on the use of AI in breast screening was presented by Volpara Health Technologies Ltd ...

March 09, 2023

Breast cancer risk estimates for individual women vary substantially depending on which risk assessment model is used, and women are likely receiving vastly different recommendations depending on the model used

News | Breast Imaging

Breast Cancer Risk Models May Incorrectly Classify Many Women

February 17, 2023 — Breast cancer risk estimates for individual women vary substantially depending on which risk ...

February 17, 2023

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Table 1. Compared to 2-D mammography, which yields four images per patient, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or 3-D mammography, produces hundreds of images per patient. While this provides more information for clinicians, the exponential increase in data can result in reader fatigue and burnout, which may ultimately affect patient care.

Case Study | Artificial Intelligence

From Surviving to Thriving: How Regional Medical Imaging Enhanced Productivity

As the largest independent imaging group in Michigan with 10 locations across the state, Regional Medical Imaging (RMI) ...

April 09, 2020

Karla Kerlikowske, MD, UCSF professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics

News | Breast Imaging

Breast Cancer Risk Calculator Can Assess Risk of Advanced Breast Cancer

February 14, 2023 — Breast cancer is now the leading cause of global cancer incidence among women but determining who ...

February 14, 2023

Awareness of breast density appears to increase one’s perceived breast cancer risk for a short time after undergoing mammography

News | Breast Density

Uncertainty About Breast Cancer Risk and Screening Choices and Perceived Risk Heighten with Breast Density Awareness Following Mammography

February 6, 2023 — Awareness of breast density appears to increase one’s perceived breast cancer risk for a short time ...

February 06, 2023

Compared to other common supplemental screening methods, breast MRI was superior at detecting breast cancer in women with dense breasts

News | MRI Breast

Breast MRI Effective at Detecting Cancer in Dense Breasts

February 1, 2023 — Compared to other common supplemental screening methods, breast MRI was superior at detecting breast ...

February 01, 2023

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Figure 1. R MLO view from four different years. The skin mole is marked with a circular skin marker (TomoSPOT REF# 782, Beekley Medical) on the far-left image. These images demonstrate the potential for significant variability in location of the skin lesion due to movability of the skin during positioning.

Case Study | Breast Imaging

Use of Mole Markers in DBT Improves Clinical Workflow and Patient Safety

Christina Jacobs, M.D., Director of Breast Imaging (Bronson Health System) is always looking for ways to work more ...

April 09, 2020

Will 2023 be the year that both a national reporting standard and a federal insurance mandate for no-cost additional imaging become a reality?

Feature | Breast Density | By JoAnn Pushkin

Creating Patient Equity: A Breast Density Legislative Update

Let’s start with an actual clue from a Jeopardy Tournament of Champions match: “The main cause of false negative results ...

January 19, 2023

Careful crafting of the notification language is key to ensuring desired outcomes and minimizing any unintended outcomes

News | Breast Density

FDA Needs to Ensure that Information on Dense Breast Notifications are Clear and Understandable to all Members of the Public

December 22, 2022 — You are among the women who dutifully gets an annual mammogram. Year after year, the results are ...

December 22, 2022

Legislation aimed at improving breast cancer detection and saving lives was introduced this morning in Washington, DC. The Find It Early Act would ensure all health insurance plans cover screening and diagnostic mammograms and breast ultrasounds and MRIs with no cost-sharing. In a press briefing, U.S. House Representative and House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT) discussed the Find it Early Act with co-sponsor Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), award-winning journalist Katie Couric and JoAnn Pushkin, Executive

News | Breast Density

Dense Breast Legislation, Find It Early Act, Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives, with Katie Couric and DenseBreast-Info Leader Joining Sponsors

December 13, 2022 — Legislation aimed at improving breast cancer detection and saving lives was introduced this morning ...

December 13, 2022

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Videos | Breast Density

Innovative Breast Cancer Screening for Women With Dense Breast Tissue

Monica Saini, M.D., consultant medical director — ABUS at GE Healthcare, discusses the necessity for personalized breast ...

January 09, 2017

News | Mammography

High Deductible Leads Women to Skip Testing after Abnormal Mammogram

November 29, 2022 — One in five women is likely to forgo additional testing after an abnormal finding on a screening ...

November 29, 2022

Through DBT, medical technology has been able to pave a new path and provide a launch board for AI and other technologies that can use its high-resolution images

Feature | Breast Imaging | By Andrew Smith and Paola Wisner

Revolutionizing Women’s Health with One-day Diagnosis

Patients are the motivational driver for innovation in breast imaging companies. Their needs and experiences help ...

November 04, 2022

Onsite Women’s Health, Whiterabbit and Washington University in St. Louis Join Forces to Explore Breast Density and Implications for Breast Cancer Risk

News | Breast Density

Longitudinal Study of AI in Breast Density To Be Presented at RSNA

November 1, 2022 — Onsite Women’s Health, a leading national provider of breast health services, announces with ...

November 01, 2022

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Case Study | Women's Health

Enhancing Precision, Growing Patient Volume, Fighting a Growing Public Health

Following the global trend, cancer rates in Mexico continue to rise — and breast cancer is now the number-one killer of ...

July 06, 2016

QTscan delivers safe, accurate monitoring of breast cancer treatment

News | Breast Imaging

FDA Grants QT Imaging Clearance to Calculate Fibroglandular Volume of the Breast

September 26, 2022 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted QT Imaging, Inc. 510(K) clearance to ...

September 26, 2022

#WorldDenseBreastDay Added to the National Day Calendar

News | Breast Density

First-Ever #WorldDenseBreastDay Event to Promote Education about Dense Breasts

September 22, 2022 — DenseBreast-info.org (DB-i) announced that it will host the inaugural #WorldDenseBreastDay on ...

September 22, 2022

When radiologists review mammograms, they can see how dense the breasts are. Below are four mammogram images of breasts. The two images on the right are referred to as dense breasts.

News | Breast Density

DenseBreast-info.org Prioritizes Patient Health Literacy

July 19, 2022 — DenseBreast-info.org (DB-i) has completed a health literacy update of patient educational materials on ...

July 19, 2022

News | Mammography

US Radiology Specialists and Charlotte Radiology Enhance Mammography Services with Innovative Volpara Health Patient Care Software

May 20, 2022 — US Radiology Specialists, Inc., one of the nation's premier physician-owned radiology companies ...

May 20, 2022

BSC coordinates QUSTom, the first project that will use supercomputing to detect tumors more effectively and safely. The new imaging modality will improve breast cancer diagnosis and potentially replace mammograms

News | Ultrasound Women's Health

New Project Coordinated by the BSC Aims to Revolutionize the Detection of Breast Cancer Using Ultrasound Imaging

May 16, 2022 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) coordinates QUSTom (Quantitative Ultrasound Stochastic ...

May 16, 2022

Using U.S. guidelines, ProFound AI Risk found 14% of women studied who had a negative screen had almost 20 times higher risk of developing breast cancer in the next year than the general risk population

News | Breast Imaging

New Research Finds iCAD's ProFound AI Risk for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis is 2.4x More Accurate than Traditional Lifetime Risk Models

May 16, 2022 — iCAD, Inc., a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy ...

May 16, 2022

In these three examples of soft tissue lesions, the images are unperturbed on the left column and blurred on the right column. The AI system was sensitive to the blurring, while the radiologists were not. This showed that the AI system relies on details in soft tissue lesions that are considered irrelevant by the radiologists. Image courtesy of Taro Makino, NYU’s Center for Data Science

News | Breast Imaging

Radiologists, AI Systems Show Differences in Breast-cancer Screenings, New Case Study Finds

April 29, 2022 — Radiologists and artificial intelligence systems yield significant differences in breast cancer ...

April 29, 2022

Having dense breasts (more fibroglandular tissue than fatty tissue, as visualized on a mammogram) reduces the sensitivity of mammography by masking breast cancers and carries a 1.6- to 2.0-fold increased independent risk for breast cancer.

News | Breast Density

Researchers Identify Misperceptions Surrounding Breast Density Across Race/Ethnicity and Health Literacy Levels

April 27, 2022 — Having dense breasts (more fibroglandular tissue than fatty tissue, as visualized on a mammogram) ...

April 27, 2022