I have breast cancer and have met with many doctors since my diagnosis. I was operated on at Mayo and they saved my breast. But I have learned a lot about how we get Breast Cancer. Dr. Ruddy is a breast surgeon and is the founder of Womens Breast Health Foundation. She has done a lot of research and says that birth control pills when taken even for only one year, increases the likely hood of getting breast cancer by 50%.
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Birth Control Pill increases your chance of Cancer
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crap...well thats good to know. is it only certain birth control pills, or the whole lot?
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Welcome to A2A, Magdalene. Dr Ruddy's figures are rather larger that the results of a very large study reported in the Lancet in 1996 ( http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(96)90806-5/abstract ), which found a 24% increase. They also found that "[t]he cancers diagnosed in women who had used combined oral contraceptives were less advanced clinically than those diagnosed in women who had never used these contraceptives", suggesting that women on oral contraceptives were being diagnosed sooner. A later study, published at the end of last year ( http://humupd.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/6/631 ) also only found a small increased risk of breast cancer, and a reduced risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer.However that's of little comfort when it has hit you yourself.
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Look like the news is not as dire as it sounded. For more info, look here
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in the world we live in...almost 50% or more things we use regularly can cause cancer or increase the chances of it. the list is ever growing. honestly what's safe? i agree with Pete's post because i had also read about it previously.
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never proved. you always have people saying these things. that means you always have these things. Read it before on a website of an online pharmacy in Europe [link removed]. So consult your doctor for more accurate information.
