DO not hesitate to swallow the contraceptive pill. That birth control pills proved successful prevent ovarian cancer cases of 200 thousand and 100 thousand deaths from cancer over a period of half a century since the pill was found. This was revealed in a study published in the journal Lancet.
The study said about 30 thousand cases of ovarian cancer could be prevented each year because of the use of contraceptive pills.
The numbers were obtained after a epidemiology of ovarian cancer researchers join team funded by Cancer Research UK study 45 studies in 21 countries involving 23 thousand women with ovarian cancer and 87 healthy women thousands of others.
Women who use oral contraceptives were shown to have less risk of developing ovarian cancer than their counterparts.
In addition, the longer women used the pill, the risk of ovarian cancer decreased. The research team said the use of contraceptive pills for 10 years will reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by a third.
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