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Do YOU have dense breasts?

“It might just be the Dr. Kamilia Kozlowski

greatest cancer risk
played a major role

in this law getting
you’ve never heard of.”
passed by bringing this

Karen Rovn - Los Angeles Times
important issue to the

State Legislature. It was

signed into Tennessee Law June

Five facts about dense breast tissue:
of 2013. This law, called the “Breast

1. 40%ofwomenhavedensebreasttissue.
Cancer Protection Law” will now

aford all Tennessean women as of
2. Breastdensityisoneofthestrongestpredictors

of the failure of mammography to detect cancer.
January, 2014 to know if they have

3. 95% of women do not know their breast density.
a dense mammographic pattern

on screening mammography. Now
4. Breast density is a well-established
predictor of breast cancer risk.
they will be able to discuss with their

5. Lessthan1in10womenlearnabouttheir
doctors the ways they can protect
dense breast tissue from their doctors.
themselves in a situation when the

mammogram is less sensitive and

can miss more breast cancers.
Adding screening

technologies to

mammography

for women with

dense breast tissue will increase

detection by up to 100%.

Knoxville Comprehensive Breast Center

1400 Dowell Springs Blvd., Suite 200
The Boutique at KCBC
Knoxville, TN 37909

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personal appearance of women after breast
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cancer. Shop our ine selection of bras,
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