31 Oct 2017
Do You Have All the Facts About Oral Contraceptive and Breast Cancer?
Oral contraception is one of the most widely used form of birth control worldwide. In fact, an article published a little over 20 years ago in the popular magazine The Economist called the pill one of the inventions “that defined the 20th century.” Approximately 15% of American women ages 15 to 44 use some form of pharmaceutical-based contraceptive.
There is no doubt that oral contraceptives are convenient to use and can help prevent pregnancy. But according to the World Health Organization, they are also a known carcinogen that have been linked to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4135458/" target="_blank" …read more