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Many newer contraceptives still linked to breast cancer: study

For every 100,000 women, hormone contraceptive use causes an additional 13 breast cancer cases a year

Published Thu, Dec 7, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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WOMEN who rely on birth control pills or contraceptive devices that release hormones face a small but significant increase in the risk for breast cancer, according to a large study published on Wednesday.

The study, which followed 1.8 million Danish women for more than a decade, upends widely held assumptions about modern contraceptives for younger generations of women.

Many women have believed that newer hormonal contraceptives are much safer than those taken by their mothers or grandmothers, which had higher doses of oestrogen.

The new paper estimated that for every 100,000 women, hormone contraceptive use causes an additional 13 breast cancer cases a ye…

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