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Title: Study: The Pill protects against cancer
Post by: Natasha on January 25, 2008, 06:35:44 AM
Study: The Pill protects against cancer

http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/ovarian_cancer.html
01/24/2008

LONDON - Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it, scientists said. British researchers found that women taking the pill for 15 years halved their chances of developing ovarian cancer, and that the risk remained low more than 30 years later, though protection weakened over time. The findings were published Friday in The Lancet.