21.   It may also result from differences in other hormones, especially insulin, which can affect both bone and breast tissue, the researchers wrote.

22.   Its biochemistry was promising, since it prevents the hormone estrogen from stimulating breast tissue.

23.   Keep in mind that breast tissue extends from your clavicle to your bra line and from your sternum to your lymph nodes underneath your arm.

24.   Like MRI, the MIBI is especially effective for women with dense breast tissue.

25.   Most of the rest will be found to have only fibrocystic disease, a thickening of breast tissue, or fibroadenomas, benign tumors that rarely become cancerous.

26.   My breast tissue is fibrous and thick and it takes a little longer for the X-ray part.

27.   Often the cancer is more advanced when they discover it, and it spreads more quickly in men, who have less breast tissue.

28.   Proponents of screening younger women point to lives that have been saved, while opponents cite the difficulty of interpreting X-rays of younger, denser breast tissue.

29.   Robert Alfano, a laser physicist at City University of New York and a pioneer in this area, recently received a patent for optical imaging of breast tissue.

30.   She displayed photographs of her disintegrated breast implant and fatty breast tissue that surgeons removed from her.