Uncertainty about breast cancer risk and screening choices increase with breast density awareness

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Awareness of breast density appears to increase one’s perceived breast cancer risk for a short time after undergoing mammography in Northern Manhattan according to a study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 

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