Pill and pregnancy have biggest effects on ovarian cancer risk
Date: 27.10.2011
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.
Overall, women who took the Pill for any length of time had an approximately 15 per cent lower risk of ovarian cancer than those who never took it at all - and the risk reduced further in women taking it for longer.
Taking the Pill for more than 10 years had the biggest impact on reducing the risk of the disease, followed by getting pregnant and having more than one child.
