The pill reduces the risk of ovarian cancer

Taking the pill for 10 years reduces the risk of developing ovarian cancer by 45 percent , according to new research. The site Marie Claire published a note about this study is ongoing and has involved half a million of women. According to this source, the second most effective method to protect a woman against ovarian cancer is having a baby . In this investigation it was found that cases of ovarian cancer dropped 30 percent in women who had been pregnant and that with each additional child the risk of this cancer decreased. As reported by MC , the women taking the pill for a year reduced the risk of ovarian cancer by 2.5 percent. Those who took it for five years reduced it by 13 percent, and those who used this method of contraception for 10 years or more decreased their chances of developing this disease by 45 percent. These were the findings of the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC). And what should the relationship between the pill and pregnancy and reduced risk of ovarian cancer? Scientists believe that both contraception and pregnancy exert a high in the key hormones in the body that is thought to cause tumors. The ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women and causes more deaths than any other cancer of the reproductive According to data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The more children a woman has and the earlier in life to give birth, the lower the risk of this cancer, according to the NIH.