{"id":307590,"date":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307590\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","slug":"whats-your-probability-of-developing-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307590\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Your Probability of Developing Breast Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dense breast tissue also makes it harder for radiologists to identify disease. Dense breast tissue looks white on a mammogram, as do breast masses and cancers. Incorporating density into the risk score along with recommendations for high-risk patients give clinicians valuable information, including how to advise patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to this, if a mammogram showed a woman had dense breast tissue, we weren\u2019t sure whether to recommend an automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) or not,\u201d Dr. Brophy says. \u201cNow that major health organizations and the FDA recommend ABUS as an option for women who have heterogeneously dense or extremely dense breast tissue, we can more easily guide women on their next step.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dense breast tissue also makes it harder for radiologists to identify disease. Dense breast tissue looks white on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-307590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}