Always a Bitter Pill, Now the Risk of Breast Cancer Makes Oral Contraceptives Even Harder to Swallow The countermeasures are already being activated. Just the other day, I was reading about Oral Contraceptives lessening the risk of ovarian cancer. Your body, your choice--choice of cancer, that is.
The decreased risk of ovarian cancer is far outweighed by the increased risk of invasive breast and cervical cancer, by a ratio of about 3 to 1. But the media only touts the decreased risk of ovarian cancer. I just cannot understand why there is no fullscale revolt among women.