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Christine MH-UK · 12-15-2006, 07:33 AM

Have you seen this?

Oral contraceptive use as a risk factor for premenopausal breast cancer: a meta-analysis.

The risks are particularly high for women who take the pill and then have a child more than four years later (52% increase in risk) compared with a 15% increase in risk for women who first used the pill after a full-term pregnancy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

I think that I first read about this in an online newspaper article, since it mentioned that the negative effect of the oral contraceptives was not evident ten years after oral contraceptive use stopped. I thought that this was really depressing because that would seem to mean that the pill is particularly implicated in breast cancer in the mothers of small children.

I took oral contraceptives for really painful ovarian cysts when I was younger and feel upset that the risk I was put at was completely different from what I was told.

12-15-2006, 07:33 AM	#3
Christine MH-UK Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 414	Very True, Robin Have you seen this? Oral contraceptive use as a risk factor for premenopausal breast cancer: a meta-analysis. The risks are particularly high for women who take the pill and then have a child more than four years later (52% increase in risk) compared with a 15% increase in risk for women who first used the pill after a full-term pregnancy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum I think that I first read about this in an online newspaper article, since it mentioned that the negative effect of the oral contraceptives was not evident ten years after oral contraceptive use stopped. I thought that this was really depressing because that would seem to mean that the pill is particularly implicated in breast cancer in the mothers of small children. I took oral contraceptives for really painful ovarian cysts when I was younger and feel upset that the risk I was put at was completely different from what I was told.