"Cancer risk among users of oral contraceptives: cohort data from the Royal College of General Practitioner's oral contraception study,"is the title of the article. It's FReebie accessed on the BMJ link.
1 posted on
09/12/2007 6:38:06 PM PDT by
neverdem
To: neverdem
I prefer to think of the pill as reducing the risk of abortion.
2 posted on
09/12/2007 6:41:43 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: neverdem
Well, that settles that! lol
The medical lords have spoken.
3 posted on
09/12/2007 6:43:15 PM PDT by
Finalapproach29er
(Dems will impeach Bush in 2008; mark my words.)
To: neverdem
“Taking the Pill reduces the risks of a woman getting cancer later in life, according to one of the largest studies ever undertaken.”
For some reason I don’t believe a word of this.
4 posted on
09/12/2007 6:44:13 PM PDT by
annelizly
To: neverdem
5 posted on
09/12/2007 6:45:47 PM PDT by
balch3
To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
8 posted on
09/12/2007 6:57:40 PM PDT by
neverdem
(Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
To: neverdem
I suppose it certainly cuts the risk of having a dried film of DNA on your back :-)
12 posted on
09/12/2007 7:13:55 PM PDT by
Moleman
To: neverdem
Study either makes no sense or is misleadingly reported. Short term pill use reduced cancer risk 12% later in life. BUT:
Using the pill 8 years or more INCREASED cancer risk twice as much - 22%.
Seems logical to me that 8 years is not a magic cut off point. So if you used the pill 5 years, is your risk up or down? This article says down, I wouldn't bet on it.
13 posted on
09/12/2007 7:14:44 PM PDT by
Williams
To: neverdem
On it’s face, I’m afraid I don’t find this credible. It sounds like politicized science to me. I wouldn’t trust the report until it has been thoroughly analyzed by people I can trust.
15 posted on
09/12/2007 7:19:14 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: neverdem
The headline is a lie. In some instances it lowered risk, after continued use it increased risks.
18 posted on
09/12/2007 8:07:02 PM PDT by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: neverdem
**Taking the Pill cuts the risk of cancer**
I don’t think so.
20 posted on
09/12/2007 8:31:43 PM PDT by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: neverdem
I wonder what child-bearing does to the risk of cancer later in life?
33 posted on
09/14/2007 7:44:58 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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