Description: Check Your Chart is a My Density Matters initiative to help women identify their breast density from the medical charts. It is critical that women with dense breasts know their density. All breast screening is not created equal, and some modalities are more effective on dense breasts.
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Why should you check your chart? Your personal health information (medical visits, test results, etc.) is in your online patient portal, as well as an opportunity to send your doctor messages and questions about your health.
Breast tissue is composed of milk glands, milk ducts and supportive tissue. These make up the dense tissue in the breast. Breasts also include fatty tissue, which is not dense tissue. On a mammogram, fatty tissue appears dark & transparent. Dense breast tissue appears as a solid white area. The ratio of dense breast tissue and non-dense breast tissue determines your density category – A, B, C, or D. [23]