Dense Breasts & Breast Implants
At first it might not seem like these dense breasts and breast implants have anything in common and yet they do.
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Breast implants by virtue of being inserted between the chest wall, naturally occurring breast tissue and the skin, compresses tissue around them - including breast tissue - consequently increasing breast density, as shown on these mammogram images.
Independent of whether a breast implant is placed for augmentation purposes or cosmetic reasons - including following mastectomy - it is clear that the inserted implant compresses the breast tissue that is present or remains, increasing breast density.
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The following set of mammograms compares different levels of breast density which opacify the qualitative appearance of abnormalities that might suggest breast cancer.
As we have already discussed, having dense breasts - which include half of all women not considering breast implants - interferes with mammography results.
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Dense breast tissue is normal breast tissue. It is the non-glandular tissue present in the breast of women. This non-glandular tissue does NOT have increased regional metabolic or blood flow activity and when measured by FMTVDM, it is measured as normal healthy breast tissue.
However, if there is a breast cancer or some other InflammoThrombotic Immunologic Response (ITIR) Disease (ITIRD) present within the dense breast tissue, FMTVDM will quantitatively find it due to its increased regional metabolic and blood flow activity; including any spread to the lymph nodes.
While breast implants clearly interfere with mammography images - as shown in the first set of mammogram images above - they do not interfere with FMTVDM imaging.
Since there is no blood flow or metabolic activity in breast implants - unless the implants have ruptured and are now causing an ITIR within the breast itself - quantified FMTVDM images show the implants as having ZERO metabolic and blood flow activity because they are not living tissue.
