Birth control pills may increase your risk of breast cancer

A study warns that women who use hormonal birth control pills (hormonal birth control pills), including regular birth control pills, also have an increased risk of breast cancer.

These findings are based on a study that tracked 1.8 million women aged 15 to 49 years over the past 10 years.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark said the risk of breast cancer is higher in women who recently used hormonal contraceptives than women who have never used it. hormonal birth control pills. However, the absolute risk increase is very small.

After stopping contraceptive therapy with hormones, the risk of breast cancer is still higher in women who have used birth control pills with hormones for five years or more than women who do not use them.

Women who are currently or recently used progestin to put into the ovarian system are also at higher risk of breast cancer than women who have never used hormonal birth control.

The absolute increase in breast cancer is diagnosed among current and recent users of any hormonal contraceptive method with a rate of 13 / 100,000 people, or about 1 breast cancer case for every 7,690 women use hormonal birth control for one year.