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Using oral contraceptives more commonly known as “the pill” protects women from uterine cancer, Time reports.
The study, published in the The Lancet Oncology, looked at data “ from 7,276 women with endometrial (uterine) cancer and 115,743 women without it from 36 different studies. They estimate in their findings that 400,000 cases of endometrial cancer have been prevented due to women taking oral contraceptives in the past 50 years, and 200,000 of these prevented cases are from the last 10 years.”
According to the study the “protective effect” continues years after stopping the pill.
“Women who use it when they are in their 20s or even younger continue to benefit into their 50s and older, when cancer becomes more common,” Valerie Beral, a professor at Britain’s Oxford University who co-led the study told Reuters.
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