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- Title
At Pill's 30th Birthday, Breast Cancer Question is Unresolved.
- Authors
Althaus, Frances A.; Kaeser, Lisa
- Abstract
The article discusses information on conferences on oral contraceptives effect to the development of breast cancer among women. The 30th anniversary of the birth control pill has arrived. Sixty million women worldwide currently use the pill, 11 million in the United States alone. Despite the time that has passed since its introduction, and its commonplace nature in today's society, the spotlight on this method of birth control has not dimmed. Public controversy and scientific scrutiny continue three decades after its introduction, largely because of the many unanswered questions about its long-term risks and benefits. Besides age, race and nationality, the major risk factors for breast cancer are thought to be early menarche, late menopause, childlessness, delayed childbearing, obesity, a history of benign breast disease and a family history of breast cancer. Several of these indicate that hormones play a role in the development of breast cancer, a theory supported by epidemiological evidence. Women whose ovaries do not secrete hormones do not get breast cancer, and those whose ovaries were removed at an early age are at a significantly decreased risk.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer; CANCER patients; CONTRACEPTIVE drugs; CONFERENCES &; conventions; CANCER risk factors; DOSAGE forms of drugs; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 4, p173
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135609