Mayo Clinic offers new guidance on supplemental screening of women with dense breasts

An example of a mammogram with some dense breast tissue that was deemed to not have cancer, and molecular breast imaging (MBI) study of the same women showing increased metabolic activity in the dense area, revealing a caner. Image from Mayo Clinic.

An example of a mammogram with some dense breast tissue that was deemed to not have cancer, and molecular breast imaging (MBI) study of the same women showing increased metabolic activity in the dense area, revealing a caner. Image from Mayo Clinic.

There are not yet consensus-based guidelines available for screening women with dense breast tissue, so researchers at Mayo Clinic recently developed a set of recommendations regarding supplemental screening.