Pill Slimly Raises Cervical Cancer Risk

November 8, 2007

Women taking the birth control pill have a slightly higher risk of cervical cancer, but that risk disappears a decade after they stop taking it, scientists say.
International researchers reported Friday in the British medical journal The Lancet that women who took the pill for at least five years had nearly double the cervical cancer risk of women who had never taken the pill.
But that risk is small and outweighed by the fact that the pill reduces the threat of other forms of cancer, The Lancet report said. more >>

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