HI HB373

Requires health care facilities performing mammography exams to provide patients with dense breast tissue a written report and notification about their dense breast tissue status.

Mandates that notifications include information about cancer risks associated with dense breast tissue and benefits of supplemental screening.

Addresses that approximately 40% of women have dense breast tissue, which is the strongest predictor of mammography screening failure to detect cancer.

Cites findings that dense breast tissue reduces cancer detection through standard mammography to approximately 50% of cases.