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Call for NHS to give women with dense breasts extra cancer scans

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One in 10 women have very dense breasts and have a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

Cancer is harder to spot in dense breasts because of the way mammograms work.

Cambridge University -led study of more than 9,000 women found different scans could treble the number of cancers detected in this group of women.

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92

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94

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83

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English

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40

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medium-lived

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