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Washington: A new study has revealed that women, who recently used
birth control pills with high-dose estrogen are prone to increased
risk for breast cancer. Elisabeth F. Beaber, PhD, , a staff scientist
in the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center in Seattle, Washington stated that their results
suggested that the use of contemporary oral contraceptives in the past
year was associated with an increased breast cancer risk relative to
never or former oral contraceptive use, and that this risk may vary by
oral contraceptive formulation. Beaber asserted that their results
required confirmation and should be interpreted carefully and breast
cancer was rare among young women and there were several established
health benefits associated with oral contraceptive use that must be
considered. Birth control pills containing low-dose estrogen did not
increase breast cancer risk. The study is published in journal of the
American Association for Cancer Research.
ANI
