Cancer Articles (Dr. S.N White)

A new major study of over 10,000 women between the ages of 20 and 54 has found that  birth control pills  do not appear to increase a woman's chances of developing  breast cancer , regardless of the type of pill she uses or whether the disease runs in her family. The researchers studied more than 30 forms of oral contraceptives and found no indication that they increased the chances of developing breast cancer even among women who had a previous experience of benign breast disease , had a history of breast cancer in their family or who started using the pill before their first pregnancy. The study involved 5,000 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time and compared them with 5,000 women who did not have breast cancer. The women in the study had used contraceptives for up to 15 years. Do oral contraceptives offer protection against any types of cancer?  Some studies have shown that oral contraceptives appear to reduce the risks of can...

Oral contraceptives pose a risk for heart disease because they raise slightly the level of LDL cholesterol while at the same time lowering the level of HDL. However, among nonsmoking women under forty who take birth control pills, there is only a slight increase in the risk of heart disease. But when women in the same age group smoke, are overweight, and take birth control pills, they are about five times more likely to suffer a heart attack.