Posted on 01/02/2014 2:42:16 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
NEW DELHI: Women who take oral contraceptives regularly are at a higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to others, shows a study by AIIMS doctors. Breast cancer risk was found to be 9.5 times more in women with a history of consuming such pills. Early menstruation cycle, late marriage and lower duration of breastfeeding were the other major factors responsible for the disease among Indians, according to the study published in the latest issue of the Indian Journal of Cancer.
The study was conducted on 640 women, of which 320 were breast cancer patients. "We found long-term use of oral contraceptive pills (OCP) higher among those suffering from breast cancer-11.9%-compared to healthy individuals-1.2%," said Dr Umesh Kapil, a professor at the public health nutrition unit, AIIMS. He said breast cancer is caused by repeated exposure of breast cells to circulating ovarian hormones, and long-term use of OCPs, which contain estrogen and progesterone, may be increasing this risk by causing hormonal imbalance.
The study mostly had women who used OCPs for birth control. Emergency contraceptives, popularly called morning-after pills, were not included. Dr Ajeet Singh Bhadoria, a public health specialist and co-author of the study, said that while the use of OCPs for birth control is on the decline, there has been a spike in the use of morning-after pills. "Morning-after pills contain a higher dose of hormones and are meant for emergency. However, many young women use them regularly to prevent pregnancy in case of unprotected sex. Awareness about the side-effects of long-term use is a must," he said.
Most contraceptive pills, including morning-after pills, are available over the counter. According to experts, regular use of such medication must be avoided or taken under strict medical supervision. An AIIMS study on the profile of patients between 2000 and 2011 found that one in 10 women with breast cancer was less than 35 years of age. Of these, about 73% were between 30 and 35, while 24% were as young as 25-29 years. "The relationship between contraceptive use and occurrence of breast cancer is not known. But there is enough evidence to show the hormonal imbalance caused by them, increasing the risk. Early menarche, late marriage and childbirth and abortions are important factors," said Dr G K Rath, the head of Bhim Rao Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (BRA-IRCH).
Early menstruation cycle, doctors say, results in a substantial cumulative exposure to estrogens and the simultaneous presence of progesterone, which increases breast cancer risk. In Delhi, the incidence of breast cancer is 32 per 100,000 people. Data shows 5-10% patients are between 20 and 30 years of age and a majority are 40-50 years old.
This would actually explain a great deal.
Scientific question: I remember hearing that early oral contraceptives had much higher hormonal dosages than those used today. I wonder if the Indian data is based on the high-dosage regimen of years ago, or if they follow more modern dosage practice?
Too much estrogen in our environment is making young American males into Pajama boys.
So they need more people in India?
Population a bit lacking there is it?
Maybe you should just let us know how many children everyone should be having, comrade.
It’s all the soy in the diet. Seriously, that’s a big factor.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/prescriptions/2010/08/premature_maturity.html
Actually, we have a huge amount of hormones in our food. Beef and chicken are infused with them because the sooner they get to market weight and the heavier they are the more money the farmer makes.
I see young men with gynomastia all the time. (Moobs, or man boobs.) Part of that is just due to gluttony. Fat makes estrogen, the only non-sex related tissue to do so. So, the fatter the more estrogen. The fat around the moobs begins to develop. Next thing you know you’re sitting around in a onesy sipping cocoa in your parent’s basement and talking about Obamacare.
I was wondering the same thing.
Oh, surely dozens would be appropriate when you can't feed even one.
Good question. Usually studies have such insights in the conclusion but after searching the AIIMS.edu site, they are verrrry busy people and the new study wouldn’t be available to the public so soon anyway.
On the other hand.... maybe not. :)
But then, those pills are manufactured in India. What sort of quality control do they have. Remember when China was shipping water in place of cancer drugs?
I hear you.
You like for women to have breast cancer?
Gotcha.
I don’t recall having mentioned breast cancer but if you like it.. then I hope you get all of it you want.
Lol
Ping
The way to answer your question --- Does Indian need more people? --- is that there is probably no subcontinent-wide answer, there are only a couple hundred million individual family answers. In other words, does "this family" and "that family" and "the other family" need more kids? The answer is sometimes "no," but surprisingly often, "yes."
If a populous country throttles childbearing,they end up with a disastrous demographic structure: the inverted triangle, with lots of older people at the top, and dwindling numbers at the bottom.
That means few entry-level wage earners, few young entrepreneurs, few innovators, few taxpayers, few care-givers, few contributors; and more people --- as the age at median creeps up and up --- who are older, slower,less productive, more dependent, and plagued by more and more expensive ills.
The poor, especially, can't afford NOT to have children. The children will support their parents in the case of illness, injury, or misfortune.
So what each individual family needs, really,is a way to avoid or achieve pregnancy as they wish, -- a way that will not cost them money, not expose them to state control, not make them dependent on constant pharmaceutical supply, and not leave them sterile, perforated, cancerous, or dead.
I could actually tell you how that can be done.
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