Contraceptive pill protects against cancer according to a recent study

New study: Contraceptive pill prevents countless cancer cases
Although the contraceptive pill is one of the most popular contraceptives in this country, it still does not have a good reputation. Especially due to various side effects and health hazards, it is considered risky. However, a new study has found that birth control pills can also protect against cancer.

Contraceptive pill is popular and controversial
The birth control pill has never had the best reputation. Although she is one of the most popular and safest contraceptives in this country, but due to numerous side effects she is repeatedly criticized. For example, the hormones would harm the body in the long run and, moreover, the drug increases the risk of thrombosis with consequences such as a pulmonary embolism or a stroke. The risk of heart disease and cancer, according to experts, increased.

Allegedly, the pill can protect against cancer. Image: Andrey Popov - fotolia

Only recently, US scientists reported that they found in a study that it can come to a shrinking brain through birth control pills. However, other researchers have now found that the pill also lowers the risk of uterine cancer.

Lowered risk of uterine cancer
In the journal "Lancet Oncology" an international research team claims now that the pill has already prevented countless cancers. In a metastatic study they analyzed a total of 36 studies on uterine cancer, reports the "Frankfurter Rundschau". The researchers came to the conclusion that women who take birth control pills regularly, have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer. For the study, data from 27,276 women suffering from uterine cancer were analyzed and compared with data from 115,743 healthy women.

Prevents hundreds of thousands of cancer cases
It turned out that out of every 1,000 women who never used the pill, 23 had uterine cancer before the age of 75. Of the 1,000 women who took the pill over a five-year period, only 17 were affected by uterine cancer before their 75th birthday. And in women who took the drug for ten years, it was even only 13. Therefore, the scientists think that the pill apparently prevented hundreds of thousands of cancers, a total of about 400,000 in the past 50 years. About half of them in the past decade. The preparation is said to protect even years after it has been discontinued, even before the cancer. According to the information, the fact that many new contraceptive pills today have a significantly lower estrogen content than before, no matter. (Ad)

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