Oral contraceptives

You may have heard about a new study into contraception and cancer. New information about cancer risks can be hard to apply to everyday life, so let’s break this research down and see what it means.

We take a brief look at what today’s study really shows about higher oestrogen Pills, and the bigger picture of the Pill and cancer risk

Can cancer be prevented? Decades of research have shown that a person’s chances of getting cancer depends on a mishmash…

This morning we woke up to headlines proclaiming that women taking the Pill could increase the risk of… prostate cancer….

Are all ‘side effects’ bad for your health? In the case of the birth control Pill, it seems not. Today,…

Taking the Pill for 10 years can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by almost half (45 per cent), new research part-funded by Cancer Research UK shows today.

Although more and more women are surviving, breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and it has been on the rise for several years.

The evidence that the sex hormone oestrogen is involved in cancer is overwhelming. For example, breast cancer is more common…

The contraceptive Pill gives women substantial and long-lasting protection against ovarian cancer, according to a new report by Cancer Research UK scientists in The Lancet today (Friday Jan 25th).

Women taking the combined oral contraceptive pill are at an increased risk of cervical cancer but this risk starts falling soon after the pill is stopped – according to research published in the Lancet today.