What you need to know about the dangers of birth control pills and their contribution to the rise in breast cancer diagnosis in young women.
Many women diagnosed with breast cancer took birth control pills for long periods of time (more than 5 years). There is a warning in every birth control packette from the manufacturer, telling women about their known link to breast cancer, yet doctors rarely inform women of this risk factor and we continue to see the rise of pre-menopausal breast cancer. The link to breast cancer with hormone replacement therapies is well documented yet most women do not realize that the very same hormones in these drugs are also in oral contraceptives.
