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  Breast cancer prevention has been widely promoted for many years, yet too few women are taking advantage of this. Breast cancer occurs in 1/8 women, and about 1% of women with prior breast cancer are diagnosed with a breast cancer in the opposite breast each year. Mostly breast cancer prevention strategies look at risk factors such as smoking and alcohol, and asking women to avoid these things.There has never been a safe level of alcohol established with respect to breast cancer.  But knowing that in reality getting breast cancer is a combination of genetics, exposure, diet, childbearing factors, and hormones that ultimately causes breast cancer. Delaying when you have children, not breastfeeding, being obese after menopause, and excessively drinking alcohol all increases your breast cancer risk. It may not be blood levels of estrogen, progesterone or testosterone, but the local levels of estrogen in the breast tissue itself. Regardless of whether its the blood le...

Infected Abscess Underneath the patient's Urethra Some patients will develop infections of the glands near the UTI Symptoms That Wasn't a Bladder Infection: Suburethral Diverticula e vaginal opening, called Bartholin's abscesses. Others will develop infections in glands that come and then go and just leave a cyst behind. In this case there is an infection underneath the urethra, and is either an infection of the urethral Skene's gland or an infected suburethral diverticuli, one case which was discussed in a prior post, can become infected and lead to a localized abscess under the urethra. Masses that appear to be similar but lower than this are typi8cally the ones that are of the Bartholin's gland. It is possible to have a cancer of either gland, but both are extremely rare and only about 300 cases of Bartholin gland cancer have been reported, and mostly seen only in post-menopausal women