News for women on the pill

New research brings encouraging news for women who use birth control pills. Researchers wondered whether woman's natural hormone cycle with the pill could increase women's cancer risk. A new study shows the opposite is true. Doctors examined health reports from the women's doctors and cancer cases included in a national registry, compiling around 45 years of information on the women's health. They found that women taking birth control pills had a 12 percent lower risk of cancer. Pill users had particularly strong reductions in the risk of ovarian and uterine cancer. However, women taking the pill for eight or more years had a 22 percent increase in their overall odds of cancer. The risk for ovarian and uterine cancers still remained lower, no matter how many years women used oral contraceptives.