Hormonal Contraceptives Increase Breast Cancer Risk, New Study Finds -- who cares?

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Hormonal Contraceptives Increase Breast Cancer Risk, New Study Finds



A study published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine has found that hormonal contraceptives, including oral contraceptive pills and hormone-releasing IUDs, significantly increase women’s risk for breast cancer.

The study found that women who used hormonal contraception had a 20 percent elevated risk[1] for breast cancer compared to women who had never used a hormonal method.

The risk was also found to be time-dependent, increasing the longer the hormonal drugs were used. Women who used hormonal contraception longer than 10 years saw their risk for breast cancer increase by almost 40 percent.[2]

While the study showed that the breast cancer risk decreased after stopping hormonal contraception, for women who used a hormonal method for five years or more, the effects of drug lingered. Women who used hormonal contraception longer than five years saw a significant elevated risk for breast cancer even five years or more after discontinuation.

Answer 1

It's been known for decades that taking hormones increase your cancer risk. not just from breast cancer but uterine cancer as well. this is not "new"

Answer 2

God doesn't want married women to use contraceptives. He wants humans to be "fruitful and multiply."

Answer 3

my mother never took those and she still died from breast cancer

Answer 4

Get a copper IUD. That's not hormonal. It's called Paragard

Answer 5

So use condoms! or get a non hormonal IUD. There are other options out there for women, they just don't push them like they do birth control pills.

Answer 6

Apparently you're just waking up from a very long sleep. It's been known for quite a long length of years that contraceptives cause cancer. Like many prescription medicines there are side effects. The side effects however don't over-ride the many good effects. Maternal deaths in the US are skyrocketing. Human overpopulation is already killing the planet and the burden of raising unwanted children both on women and society in generally is extremely onerous. And then of course there's the real illnesses and diseases treated with hormonal contraception including endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, amenorrhea and primary ovary insufficiency et al.

Answer 7

no

Answer 8

Yes, the government is trying to eradicate us somehow, someway

Answer 9

Who cares?? Women, yes women should care.

Or, possibly people who have breast and take contraceptives.

Answer 10

Women.

Answer 11

The New England Journal of Medicine is printing BS! Hormonal birth control products do NOT increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer, no matter how long they take it. That was proven YEARS ago; and the New England Journal of Medicine KNOWS it!

I'm 75 years old. I began taking hormonal birth control pills when I was 22 years old, and I took them every day for over 30 years. I never developed breast cancer; I was never suspected of having breast cancer; and I never developed even a cyst in one of my breasts. I don't know ANY women my age who took hormonal birth control for a number of years who have ever developed breast cancer.

Answer 12

Most people who don’t want breast cancer cares about that. Those who don’t want to risk losing a spouse care.



I grew up before the pill was invented. Oddly, mist of the kids I went to school with had Only 1or 2 siblings. A family with 4 children was considered a large family. They managed to maintain small families without the pill.



Since the pill was invented, people tend to think they’re more fertile than they actually are. A generation or two earlier, it was common for farm families to have 8 or more children when it was economically advantageous to have large families. In the 50s and 60s, it was no longer financially beneficial to have large families and families got smaller without the pill.



I don’t know how people did it in the 60s but today there are safe surgical birth control procedures. People want to have total control of exactly how many children they have and the exact number. We may be sacrificing health in trying to do that. You can wait until you have 3 or 4 children and have surgery. You might it e able to pick the exact number or the exact year they are born. If you have the surgery too soon, you Igbo later wish for another.

Answer 13

Who cares?



I'm guessing anyone who would prefer not to contract breast cancer, particularly those already at higher risk - the connection between hormonal birth control and certain types of cancer has been known for years, thus why doctors don't prescribe hormonal birth control to those who are at higher risk. There are many non-hormonal birth control options to chose instead.



People need to be able to make an INFORMED CHOICE - many people are rejecting hormonal birth control due to this and other risks associated, as well as its misuse among the medical community - for many people this would be another reason to consider other birth control options, and the freedom to make informed choices should be something we all care about.