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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Pill not linked to breast cancer

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020701-02

Published

1 July 2002

The oral contraceptive pill revolutionized the reproductive choices for women, but there has remained a suggestion that its use could increase the risk of developing breast cancer. In 27 June New England Journal of Medicine, Polly Marchbanks and colleagues at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, show that current or former oral-contraceptive use is not associated with a significantly increased risk of breast cancer (N Engl J Med 2002, 346:2025-2032).

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