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Dense breasts and mammograms: Jill Goodacre’s story

https://www.facingourrisk.org/XRAY/dense-breast-story
Full article: https://www.self.com/story/why-women-with-dense-breasts-may-need-more-than-a-mammogram

Korin Miller’s piece for SELF magazine focuses on why women with dense breasts may need more than a screening mammogram. Miller highlights the recent story in People magazine of Jill Goodacre, a former Victoria’s Secret model and the wife of recording artist and talk show host Harry Connick Jr. Goodacre told of her breast cancer diagnosis 5 years ago after having additional screening of her dense breast tissue following a normal mammogram.  (12/8/17)

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