The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will now require mammography centers to notify patients if their mammograms show that they have dense breast tissue. The new requirement is an update to the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) of 1992, which was put in place to ensure that facilities that do mammograms provide quality care.
Experts say that breast density matters because a cancerous tumor in a dense breast may not show up as clearly on mammography as it would in a less dense breast. Research shows that for women with very dense breasts, screening mammograms may miss cancer up to half the time.1
Under the updated rule, patients will also need to be told what it means to have dense breasts, including how this can affect the accuracy of their mammograms and their risk of getting breast cancer.
Read more here: https://www.verywellhealth.com/new-mammography-rules-require-breast-density-7371048
