Birth Control is Good for You

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Rock the fuck on: a new study says that the pill cuts the risk of any kind of cancer by 12%.
the real benefits kick in 15 years or more after she has stopped. Most women go on the pill in their late teens or early twenties and have given up by their late twenties, before the age when cancer becomes most common.

The researchers, who analyzed 36 years of data from the Royal College of General Practitioners' oral contraception study, show that women who were once on the pill . . . .are significantly less likely to suffer from certain other cancers, in particular ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer, which affects the lining of the womb. They are also better protected from bowel cancer.

The one down side is that women who took the pill for over eight years are apparently more likely to get cervical cancer. But as the linked article points out, that's possibly the effect not of the pill, but of condomless sexual activity; most sexually active adults have contacted HPV at some point, and as we all know, some strains of HPV are known to cause cervical cancer.

And hey, there's a vaccine against that these days. Hurrah for science!

Bitch_PhD thinks the pill is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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