Translation of "screen density " (English → French) :

(30) Whereas it is essential that manufacturers notify the competent authorities of the placing on the market of 'new products` with regard both to the technology used and the substances to be analysed or other parameters; whereas this is true in particular of high-density DNA probe devices (known as micro-chips) used in genetic screening;

Before screening programs undertake to communicate this information to women, we need to know what causes a woman to have dense breasts, why breast density decreases over time, what the nature is of dense breast tissue, how cumulative best density affects cancer risk and how breast density can be reliably measured.

The American College of Radiology in April 2012 produced a position statement that raised a multitude of controversial issues related to this kind of awareness legislation. Among them, for example, were things such as the assessment of breast density is not reliably reproducible; we may convey a false sense of security about negative mammography results; the significance of breast density as a risk factor for breast cancer is highly controversial; and the inclusion of breast density information in a lay summary could result in demands for additional non- mammographic screening ...[+++], which then leads to enormous numbers of false positives.