Birth control pills may reduce endometrial cancer risk
Source: Newsweek
Birth control pills can have a number of positive health benefits that go beyond avoiding unwanted pregnancy, including lighter and less painful periods, reduced symptoms of premenstrual syndrome and even fewer pimples. Now new research suggests we can add cancer prevention to the list.
A paper published Wednesday in The Lancet Oncology estimates that in the last 50 years, oral contraceptives have prevented approximately 400,000 deaths from endometrial cancer.
The paper looked at 36 existing studies over five decades that involved data on 27,276 women diagnosed with endometrial cancer in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa.
The researchers found that for every five years a woman used birth control pills, she reduced her risk for endometrial cancer by about 25 percent. In higher-income countries, the risk reduction was even more pronounced: There were only 1.3 cases of endometrial cancer per 100 women who used oral contraceptives compared with 2.3 per 100 women who didn’t take the pill.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/birth-control-pills-may-reduce-endometrial-cancer-risk/
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