THE Contraceptive Pill Protects

Jan 25, 06:02 PM

A study shows the longer a woman is on the Pill, the less likely she is to develop the disease.

A report today in The Lancet medical journal shows that taking the Pill for 15 years halves the risk of ovarian cancer compared with those who have never taken it.

The researchers claim the benefits outweigh any other slight rise in cancer risk posed by the Pill. Ovarian cancer kills around 4,600 women in the UK each year. The latest study by Cancer

Research UK scientists provides more evidence of protection against ovarian cancer, which has been recognised in previous research as a major health benefit from using the Pill.

It looked at evidence from 45 studies of ovarian cancer in 21 countries, involving 100,000 women.

Researchers estimated that, in high income countries, using oral contraceptives for ten years cut the risk of developing ovarian cancer before the age of 75 from 12 to eight per 1,000 women.

It reduced the risk of death from ovarian cancer before age 75 from seven to five per 1,000 women.

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