Birth control pills for 30 years reduces the risk of ovarian cancer

Birth control pills protect women against ovarian cancer for 30 years after discontinuation of medication. Thanks to this might today about 100 thousand deaths to prevent ovarian cancer, British researchers reported. The longer the period of taking the pills, the lower the risk of developing the disease. Often in women over 50 years For example, women who take the pill for 15 years, reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by half, researchers reported the journal Lancet. As a result, the women who might pills to prevent 200 thousand cases of ovarian cancer and 100 thousand deaths in the world, said Valerie Beral of Oxford University. Based on these results, the researchers concluded that the benefits and protection of the pill takes a lot longer than people previously thought. The study found that reducing the use of the pill for 10 years, the risk of ovarian cancer in 12 out of 1,000 women aged 75 years. And 7 out of 1000 women reduces the risk of death from ovarian cancer. The study also showed that the factors of ethnicity, education, marital status and other no effect on reducing the risk of ovarian cancer when taking pills. According to researchers, the exact cause of the protective function of the pill is not yet clear, but it is certainly clear that. The overwhelming risk of ovarian cancer in women, this medication