{"id":214538,"date":"2025-05-23T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/additional-imaging-techniques-can-detect-early-stage-cancers-missed-by-mammograms-in-women-with-dense-breasts"},"modified":"2025-05-23T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:05:10","slug":"additional-imaging-techniques-can-detect-early-stage-cancers-missed-by-mammograms-in-women-with-dense-breasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/additional-imaging-techniques-can-detect-early-stage-cancers-missed-by-mammograms-in-women-with-dense-breasts","title":{"rendered":"Additional imaging techniques can detect early stage cancers missed by mammograms in women with dense breasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/additional-imaging-techniques-can-detect-early-stage-cancers-missed-by-mammograms-in-women-with-dense-breasts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In women with dense breasts (breasts with relatively low levels of fatty tissue) and a negative mammogram, supplemental imaging techniques detect early-stage cancers, with imaging techniques three times more effective than ultrasound, finds a Phase III randomized control trial <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0140673625005823\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in The Lancet.<\/p>\n<p>Women with extremely <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/dense+breasts\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dense breasts<\/a>, about 10% of those aged 50\u201370 years in the UK, face a fourfold increased risk of breast cancer compared to those with the least dense breasts.<\/p>\n<p>Mammograms are less effective for detecting early-stage cancer in dense breasts, as the tissue can hide tumors on the breast X-rays. Previous studies have shown MRI and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/ultrasound\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ultrasound<\/a> are effective supplementary imaging methods, but this study is the first to compare them with contrast mammography in women with normal mammograms and dense breast tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In women with dense breasts (breasts with relatively low levels of fatty tissue) and a negative mammogram, supplemental imaging techniques detect early-stage cancers, with imaging techniques three times more effective than ultrasound, finds a Phase III randomized control trial published in The Lancet. Women with extremely dense breasts, about 10% of those aged 50\u201370 years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}