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Actually Robin, it was the timing, not the duration
That is if a woman took the pill and then had her first pregnancy more than four years after she started taking it, there was the biggest increase in the risk. Apparently it is the timing that is significant, but not the duration of use. I'm thin, too, which also ups the risk.
Oral contraceptive has been found as a particular risk factor in many of the studies of her2 (whereas other factors, like number of children, doesn't seem to matter so much).
I am the kind of person who reads the packet information and from that I remember that the general increased risk of breast cancer was believed to be offset by the reduced risk of ovarian cancer, but it seems from what I have read it seems like there are higher risk groups where the risks would outweight any benefit. I think the label should be changed.
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