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Dense breasts are not just an interesting attribute, wish I’d known the cancer risk
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on August 7, 2012
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Here’s an important public health fact: women with dense breast tissue are at least four times more likely to develop breast cancer. I wish I’d known about that risk factor before learning last month that I have Stage IIIB breast cancer.