Hey what's going on guys and welcome to episode 83 of the physician

assistant boards.com podcast today we're going to be answering a student's

question regarding the risk of breast and endometrial cancer when taking

oral contraceptive pills.

Now there's been a lot of controversy, does it increase risk, does it not increase

risk, and the second part to his question was why?

Why does the estrogen increase the risk for breast cancer but decrease

the risk of endometro cancer so that's what we're going to be answering today and

I just want to let you know that this response is posted on our member section and you can go ahead and check that out at

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to help you practice medicine more confident.

So you can learn more about the member section there

and the videos.

Now apart from the videos, we're also putting out written only transcripts

and we're also making audio only files as well.

This way you can watch the video lecture

or you can take the audio file while you're working out,

while you're running errands, or you can simply sit down and read the lecture itself.

So with that said, let's get into today's topic of oral

contraceptive pills and the risk of breast and endometrial cancer.

Hey what's up guys? Today we're going to be answering a member's question

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