This cardiac surgery team at UCSF is likely the first all-women team to perform a heart transplant.
What does it mean if a patient has dense breasts?
TODAY.com asked Dr. Deanna Attai, past president of the American Society of Breast Surgeons and an associate clinical professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles; and Dr. Dana Smetherman, past chair of the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Commission and chair of radiology at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.It has to do with the proportion of fatty tissue, glandular tissue and fibrous connective tissue in the breast.
Thinner women often have dense breast tissue. For others, it’s hereditary or just how they’re born. More than half of women over 40 in the U.S. have dense breasts, which is a risk factor for developingHaving dense breasts is not something a person can see or feel — it’s different from having a lumpy breast, Attai said — rather, it’s determined by a mammogram.
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