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Breast Cancer
Oral contraceptives may have protective effect
April 21st, 2005
Women at high genetic risk of breast cancer could reduce their risk of developing the disease at an early age by taking oral contraceptives, a new study has found. The findings contradict previous studies, which suggested oral contraceptive use would increase the risk of developing breast cancer. The research showed that the lifetime risk of breast cancer for women who have inherited a "high-risk" mutation in the breast cancer gene BRCA1 was reduced from 40-80% to 10-20% if the women used oral contraceptives. John Hopper, director of the University of Melbourne's Center for Genetic Epidemiology and leader of the study, says,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-21)
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