what is the difference between dense and non dense breast tissue?
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Dense breast tissue contains milk glands, milk ducts and supportive tissue. Non dense tissue contains fatty tissue. On a mammogram, nondense breast tissue appears dark and transparent, while dense breast tissue appears more solid and white, which makes it difficult to see through.
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Bones are composed of two types of tissue: A hard outer layer called cortical (compact) bone, which is strong, dense and tough. 2. A spongy inner layer called trabecular (cancellous) bone. This network of trabeculae is lighter and less dense than compact bone.
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Dense breasts don't look or feel any different than ones that aren't dense. A mammogram is the only way to assess density. In fact, many women who have dense breasts find out in a letter they get along with their mammogram results.
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If the lumpiness can be felt throughout the breast and feels like your other breast, then it's likely normal breast tissue. Lumps that feel harder or different from the rest of the breast (or the other breast) or that feel like a change should be checked.
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numerous, small multiple cysts, (lumpy, fluid-filled sacs, or "pockets"). Fibrocystic changes are an exaggerated response of breast tissue to changes of ovarian hormones. Fibrocystic changes are the most common non-cancerous breast condition. They are most common in women between the ages of 20 and 50.
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Scattered fibroglandular tissue refers to the density and composition of your breasts. A woman with scattered fibroglandular breast tissue has breasts made up mostly of non-dense tissue with some areas of dense tissue. About 40 percent of women have this type of breast tissue.
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When used as nouns, dense means a thicket, whereas thick means the thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. When used as adjectives, dense means having relatively high density, whereas thick means relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
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They are lightweight yet strong and hard, and serve multiple functions. Bone tissue (osseous tissue) is a hard tissue, a type of dense connective tissue. It has a honeycomb-like matrix internally, which helps to give the bone rigidity. Bone tissue is made up of different types of bone cells.
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Are dense breasts a risk factor for breast cancer? Yes, women with dense breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer than women with fatty breasts, and the risk increases with increasing breast density. This increased risk is separate from the effect of dense breasts on the ability to read a mammogram.
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glandular tissue includes the breast lobes and breast ducts. fibrous, or supportive or connective, tissue is the same tissue that ligaments and scar tissue are made of. fatty tissue fills in the spaces between glandular and fibrous tissue and largely determines your breast size.
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The masculine and feminine chest have distinct features that are commonly recognized: male chests are wider, have minimal breast tissue with little to no expansion of the skin envelope, smaller areolas, lateralized nipple–areola complex with less projection, a wider sternum, and greater pectoral muscle bulk.
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They do not grow into or invade normal tissues within or beyond the breast. Non-invasive cancers are sometimes called carcinoma in situ (“in the same place”) or pre-cancers. Invasive cancers do grow into normal, healthy tissues. Most breast cancers are invasive.
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It is stored in different depots to gynoid fat. The cellular characteristics of adipose tissue in android and [gynoid] obese women are different. Android type have larger fat (hypertrophy) cells whereas gynoid type have increased number of fat cells (hyperplasia).
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What Are Dense Breasts? Breast density has nothing to do with your bra size or how your breasts look or feel. It's not the same thing as having lumpy (fibrocystic) breasts either. If you have dense breasts, it means that you have a sizeable amount of fibrous or glandular tissue (versus fatty tissue) in your breasts.
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Dense connective tissue is enriched in collagen fibers with little ground substance. If the closely packed bundles of fibers are located in one direction, it is called regular; if oriented in multiple directions, it is referred to as irregular.
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What is scattered fibroglandular breast tissue? Scattered fibroglandular breast tissue is a benign or noncancerous condition that can cause one or both breasts to feel lumpy. It can be painful if cysts develop. Female breasts contain fibrous and fatty tissue.
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Ultrasound is good at evaluating superficial lumps, but a mammogram is better able to note abnormalities deeper in breast tissue. Ultrasound doesn't show microcalcifications, the minute accumulation of calcium around a tumor and the most common feature seen on a mammogram.