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Tuesday, September 17, 2013 – Daily News 3B FEATURES Dense breast tissue may call for further tests I'm about to DEAR DOCdescribe pick up a TOR K: After my lot of "false posilast mammogram, tives": The result the doctor told me looks like there I have dense might be cancer, breasts. Does this requiring a biopsy increase my risk that shows no canof breast cancer? cer. Additional DEAR READscreening tests ER: A woman's Dr. K can also be costly. breast contains by Anthony L. If you do different types of Komaroff, M.D. decide to have tissue, including fat. Women with dense further screening, here are breasts have relatively less some options to consider: — Ultrasound. In Sepfat in their breasts. Specifically, if more than 50 per- tember 2012, the FDA cent of your breasts is approved a new breast made up of other breast ultrasound system specifitissue (as opposed to fat), cally for screening dense then by definition you are breasts. This ultrasound said to have "dense scans the entire breast high-frequency breasts." It's not uncom- using mon: About 40 percent of sound waves and quickly women have dense produces several images. If you were going to have breasts. Women with dense additional testing, your breasts have a slightly doctor most likely will increased chance of devel- recommend this ultraoping breast cancer — sound. — Magnetic resonance and dense breasts can make cancer harder to imaging (MRI) uses magspot. That's because both nets and radio waves to breast tissue and tumors visualize the breasts. It appear white on a mam- would not normally be recommended just mogram. Imagine looking at because a woman has snowflakes on a black dense breasts, because of glove. Set against the dark the problem of false-posifabric, you can make out tive results. — Digital mammograsome of the crystals in detail. Then, take those phy sends X-ray images same flakes and put them of the breast to a computin a bed of snow. Now it er, rather than to film, becomes difficult to dis- making them easier to tinguish the flakes from manipulate and interpret. their background. That is A large study of nearly the challenge radiologists 50,000 women concluded face when trying to read that digital mammography the mammograms of a was somewhat more accuwoman with dense rate than regular film breasts. (I've put an image mammography in women of how dense breast tissue with dense breasts. Talk with your doctor and normal breast tissue appear on a mammogram about your overall risk of on my website, AskDoc- developing breast cancer. Together, you can detertorK.com.) There now is a federal mine what screening tests law in the United States you need and how often, that mammogram reports and what prevention should always explicitly strategies you should be state whether a breast is following. "dense" or not. Dr. Komaroff is a So should you have additional screening tests physician and professor Harvard Medical for breast cancer? The at To send trouble is, no test can School. go to diagnose breast cancer questions, or with 100 percent accura- AskDoctorK.com, cy, especially in women write: Ask Doctor K, 10 with dense breasts. And Shattuck St., Second the additional tests that Floor, Boston, MA 02115. Whiskeytown Harvest Fest Whiskeytown National Recreation Area staff and the Friends of Whiskeytown invite visitors to join us for the 3rd Annual Harvest Festival on Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the park's Tower House Historic District. This fun and family-friendly event will feature apple tasting, an apple-themed bake-off contest, games for all ages, and tours of the historic Camden House and orchards. Additionally, the festival will also offer a tour by worldrenowned arborist Rico Montenegro. Several varieties of apples will be available for tasting, many of which are heirloom cultivars, planted in the mid and late 19th century by local pioneers. These cultivars were grown organically and possess unique characteristics that are not found in modern apple varieties. Due to poor apple crops this year, apples will not be available for picking. The bake-off will be judged and prizes awarded to those with the best tasting creations. Please include the recipe for your dish, as it will be compiled into a harvest-themed cookbook that also features historic Whiskeytown recipes from the journals of early settlers. Visitors can park in the Tower House Historic District parking lot and follow the footpath to the Camden House where the festivities will be held. The day-use fee will be. For more information, call (530) 242-3438 or visit www.nps.gov/whis. Reader disgusted by dead rats at party report the conditions (most Dear Annie: Last year, municipalities like to know my husband and I attended if there is an increased rat my cousin's annual sumpopulation). But that may mer barbeque. After we not solve your problem, arrived, I looked for a place which is whether or not to to tie up our dog in the attend another barbecue backyard and noticed a few there. We say give them one dead rats. They appeared to last chance — but don't have been there for some time. I made mention of Annie's bring your dog. Dear Annie: My 55this to my cousin's husyear-old niece hasn't held a band, but he made no attempt to remove them by Kathy Mitchell job in more than five years. even though they were only and Marcy Sugar She is bipolar and on medication and is also dependent a few steps away from the on painkillers. Her mother kept her barbeque pit. I tied my dog several feet away husband's ashes in a box for years, from the dead rats. Later, when we and after her mother died 13 years returned home, our dog started ago, my niece told me she ''just scratching. This continued for sev- couldn't let him go.'' This man is not her biological eral days until we noticed his fur was falling out. I believe he con- father. But he was a Korean War veteran and deserves to be interred tracted mange from the dead rats. We've been invited to their ''last with full military honors at the nice weather barbecue,'' but I am Great Lakes National Cemetery reluctant to go. My husband says along with his wife's remains. It we should go regardless, but I feel was his wife's wish to be buried that if they don't care to get rid of with her husband. Even the husthe dead rats in their backyard, they band's surviving brother and sister shouldn't expect to entertain guests have expressed shock and disbelief there. And also, the guest bathroom that his cremains are still in a closis never clean when we visit. What et. They want him to be given a do you think? — Disgusted in the proper burial. The military cemetery will provide a niche, a plaque Midwest Dear Disgusted: We think your and a service, all of which would cousin and her husband are not par- cost my niece nothing. Yet, she ticularly meticulous about their won't do it. Is this the behavior of a normal cleaning and don't care if you notice. And while your dog may human being? Or is she being selfhave contracted mange from some- ish and controlling? — Speaking thing in their yard, there's no way to for Another Lost Veteran Dear Speaking: Well, if she is be certain now. You can contact the health department in your city and bipolar and on painkillers, she may Mailbox Find out how U. S. Bankruptcy Law can help you-For a free consultation call Attorney J. C. Olander at 530-824-0288 Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. 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