Second, if you're pre menopausal, try to schedule your mammogram in the first two weeks of your menstrual cycle, when breast density is relatively lower.

But it was better in one group, and that was women under 50 who were pre menopausal and had dense breasts, and in those women, digital mammography found twice as many cancers, but it still only found 60 percent.

We all know what happened when millions of women were given hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms for decades until all of a sudden we realized, because a study came out, a big one, It said, actually, a lot of that hormone replacement therapy may be doing more harm than good for many of those women.