Birth Control Pill Gives Long-lasting Protection Against Ovarian Cancer?
— Yessi Pratiwi • February 16th, 2008
Young women usually take birth control pills for contraceptive purposes. But, there is such a worry, whether consuming this pills can cause cancer.
Recently, Oxford scientists explained to The Lancet that using oral contraceptives for ten years reduces the risk of developing ovarian cancer before the age of 75 from 12 down to 8 per 1000 women, and reduces the risk of death from ovarian cancer before age 75 from 7 down to 5 per 1000 women. What a find!
Even, the researchers found that protection against ovarian cancer lasted for more than 30 years after women had stopped taking the pill.
No need to worry, then :-P Adapted from materials provided by University Of Oxford, and enriched from ScienceDaily.
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The use of Birth Control pills has raised many controversies and different researches have shown different results. According to the information provided by the National Cancer Institute at this site http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/oral-contraceptives#2 birth control pills increase the hormone levels and thus the risks of develop cancer. The risk is due to the genetic mutation of BRCA1 and BRAC2. It is very interesting to note that the scientists are divided on their view of the benefits of Oral contraceptives. Some encourage the use of Oral contraceptives to prevent ovarian cancer while others discourage its use since it can lead to an increased incidence of Breast cancer.
Therefore until there is tangible proof that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks use of oral contraceptives as a means to prevent cancer should not be encouraged.
S.Komala RN
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March 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm