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Are birth control pills a risk factor for breast cancer?

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MelanieBoneMD (Physician - OBGYN - Obstetrics-Gynecology (Verified) ) - 01 / 26 / 2012

NO, NO, NO. Just today I met with two pediatricians. We were discussing the BRCA gene. I explained that young girls with BRCA should go on oral contraceptives to keep their ovaries calm until they want to get pregnant as the pill decreases ovarian cancer. They looked at me skeptically. There have only been a few studies relating pills and breast cancer and the association was seen in women who never had children and took the pill for decades. There were confounding data that made it impossible to implicate the pill itself. I am a fan of the pill and think it does amazing things including preventing uterine and ovarian cancer, anemia, and missed school because of cramps. And it is far safer to prevent an unwanted pregnancy than to have an abortion or carry a full term pregnancy.

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member1665 (Survivor (2 - 5 years)) - 01 / 26 / 2012

The day I was diagnosed with breast cancer my doctors told me I had to stop taking the pill. When I asked why they told me becasue, "they can cause breast cancer". I went straight home and opened up the pill pack pamphlet folded up in the lid, the one I never read for 15 years, and it says it right there in black and white. I firmly believe that the Rx manufacturers are required to disclose this for a reason and I bet if you talked to enough breast cancer survivors you would learn that this is a huge common denominator. I don't believe it is any coincidence. Dr. Malcolm Pike, epidemiologist at SLoan Kettering Cancer Institute has said he believes the risk increase is closer to 21%, not the "claimed 2%"

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