Dense Breasts, Family History and Your Mammogram: How to Know your Real Risk

In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver continues her conversation with Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky, board-certified medical oncologist and author of Beyond the Pink — shifting from treatment to breast cancer risk, prevention, and early detection. They start with dense breasts, which about half of women have and which can both hide cancer on a mammogram and raise breast cancer risk, and which density categories call for added screening with MRI or ultrasound. Then the family history myths: only 5–10% of breast cancers are hereditary, so most women… Video by YouTube channel.