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 Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:06 am Post subject: A Positive Word About the Pill |
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A Positive Word About the Pill
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Out of the mishmash of hormone studies researchers have been serving up lately comes some good news: Birth control pills do not cause cancer.
According to a 36-year survey of some 46,000 British women, use of oral contraceptives may actually reduce a woman's risk of developing cancer unless she takes them for more than eight years.
The findings should be comforting to the hundreds of millions of women who have taken the Pill, which was developed in the 1960s and is considered the most effective method of preventing pregnancy.
"Many women, especially those who used the first generation of oral contraceptives (which contained higher doses of hormones), are likely to be reassured...
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A Positive Word About the Pill
