Mammogram Monday: Dense breast tissue can be a cancer warning sign

Local 10 reporter Janine Stanwood talks about how dense breast tissue was the first warning sign before her breast cancer diagnosis.

[madisonelizabeth]

Dense breast tissue isn’t a cancer warning sign. It can just make it harder to locate cancer in some forms of screening.

[laurainfinity]

I have dense breast tissue, but that doesn't mean you're going to get cancer, although you still should be checked to be safe. Do a 3D mamagram

[JessicaSmith-uhyc]

My mother was diagnosed in 2018 with breast cancer. She had a mammogram done and it came back clear but nearly three weeks later I found a lump on the side of her left breast. Fast-forward to 2021, where I went and got my mammogram and then they sent me for an ultrasound due to uncomfortable pain and a lump in my left breast. I've been watching many of these videos since then. Because they called back and asked me to get a biopsy done due to the fact they found abnormal seed around both of my areolas. I am only 35 years old and I have been getting mammograms since 2016 before my mother was ever diagnosed. Watching these videos give me the street to go through the next process and hope for a better outcome

[ChelseyTarnow]

Thank you so much for sharing Janine🙏. I was also diagnosed with breast cancer though I had no previous genetic factors in my family. I was 33. Like you I decided to share my heart wrenching experience on YouTube to help others. Keep up the amazing work💌. Xo

[VivSees]

! So natural dense breast which most young women have is now considered a sign of breast cancer? The deceit in medical community is deplorable.

[adelinad]

Stop selling fear again. Good sales pitch but please women beware of overdiagnosis and false positives..read last studies and see that there is almost no benefit quantifiable but lots of downsides thay don't tell you about. It's an industry and driven by profit.

[myahmyah]

It’s amazing they had her do a MRI. Kaiser for the last year keeps telling you we found something but we want you to keep coming back for two years until we decide to tell you what it is that we see.

[maryferr]

❤thank you for this not one of my doctors had me do anything else other than mamo and 3 of my sisters have, had breast cancer one passed from it.. Took it in my own hands having an ultrasound 4/12..

[teresalinton]

ive always had dense breasts no cancer. and no one in my family has it

[bellguts]

I had a diagnosis of a benign lump in my left breast and the nurse told me to follow up with a mammogram in a year nothing to worry about, but I do.

[FullTimePatient]

I have a new lunp but the dent is what's making me wonder..we have it genetic in my family, Sunday is my scan..

The tissue of my breast is described as extremely dense..so I don't know until the scan on Sunday..

[blueykidz]

I'm fat so I have dense breasts.. I'm only 26.. hoping my birth control is the issue of my extreme breast pain. Otherwise imaging is next and a breast specialist

[deloresdeal]

So true i had dense breast after every mammogram i had ultrasound when i turned 56 i developed breast cancer i decided to take doctor's advice do double mastocmey chemo radiation and implants

[GitaRaj-gsdi]

Are non calcified nodule cancerous or benign?

[gwenandreotti]

Women who have this mess Secta me procedure done, does that mean that they’re also removing the breast skin or only the breast tissue inside and then they get implants?? I also need to consider all of this. Thank you so much.

[jannatulasrar]

I have dense breast. Now What can I do?

[aidacantu]

What about the false possitive in the mammograms and what about the radiation, ? There's and study that showas that women that did mammograms every year, develop cancer

[huttsgla]

I have a lump on my left breast today was my mammogram and the DR told me that I had a car accident and that lump was there because of the impact and I told her I don’t drive and I have never been in an car accident she told me the images don’t lie I think it’s because I am Hispanic and they don’t care I don’t know what to do they can’t due further testing I do t know what to do

[denisemangan]

I’m lucky enough to get free mammogram every two years. 🇦🇺