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[Never Get a Mammogram in Your 20s]
The standard screening method is a breast X-ray

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Getting a breast X-ray

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to check the overall breast

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is actually the standard screening method

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This actually applies more to Westerners

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[It’s Different for Koreans]
it doesn’t really fit Asian women

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So even if you get a breast X-ray

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[Can’t See Anything Due to Dense Breasts]
for most people it just ends with,

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“You have dense breast tissue”

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Some patients are like

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[(Patient shocked) Is dense breast.. a bad thing?]
"Oh no, what do I do? I have a dense breast"

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They say like this

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(Lucky you)
Dense breasts are a good thing

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As you age,

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they naturally turn into fatty tissue

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[No More Dense Breasts]
So over time, your breasts become less dense

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That is why elder people

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only by x-ray

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you can see inside of the breast clearly

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When you're younger your breast is more dense

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[Breast X-ray for younger women is useless..]
the X-ray cannot pass through it

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When that happens

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we should take a look at ultrasound

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[It applies to 99% of young Korean women]
All young Koreans have dense breast

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[Korean women in your 20-30s do breast ultrasound first!!]
No matter how fat you are

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there are many fibroglandular tissue

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[Cases women in their 20s take breast X-ray?]
But why do they do the X-ray?

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They said you can't see through because of the dense breast

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There are exceptions

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Ones who have family history on breast cancer

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Ones who had breast cancer

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[Will shoot x-ray regardless of age!!]
will be shooting breast x-rays

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That is more beneficial!

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To find breast cancer early on

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is better

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