MISSOULA - October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month .

Advanced Imaging in Missoula wants to make sure cancer is prevented or caught as early as possible.

"In a woman's lifetime, there is a 1 in 8 chance of getting breast cancer, about a 12% lifetime chance of breast cancer, and that's regardless of family history," Community Medical Center/Advanced Imaging radiologist Matthew Curtis told MTN.

While a mammogram is the standard for detecting breast cancer, dense breast tissue can obscure how abnormalities show up. Both the tissue and cancer show up white on mammograms.

"Mammogram is a relatively quick, straightforward, and cheap method to screen a large population of women, but some women have higher dense tissue, and what that means is mammogram isn't as sensitive for those women,"

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