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Some not-so-surprising news from a surprising source:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Women who rely on birth control pills or contraceptive devices that release hormones face a small but significant increase in the risk for breast cancer, according to a large study published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The study<\/a>, which followed 1.8 million Danish women for more than a decade, upends widely held assumptions about modern contraceptives for younger generations of women. Many women have believed that newer hormonal contraceptives are much safer than those taken by their mothers or grandmothers, which had higher doses of estrogen.<\/p>\n

The new paper estimated that for every 100,000 women, hormone contraceptive use causes an additional 13 breast cancer cases a year. That is, for every 100,000 women using hormonal birth control, there are 68 cases of breast cancer annually, compared with 55 cases a year among nonusers.<\/p>\n

While a link had been established between birth control pills and breast cancer years ago, this study is the first to examine the risks associated with current formulations of birth control pills and devices in a large population\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026This is an important study because we had no idea how the modern day pills compared to the old-fashioned pills in terms of breast cancer risk, and we didn\u2019t know anything about I.U.D.\u2019s,\u201d said Dr. Marisa Weiss, an oncologist who founded the website breastcancer.org<\/a> and was not involved in the study. \u201cGynecologists just assumed that a lower dose of hormone meant a lower risk of cancer. But the same elevated risk is there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s small but it\u2019s measurable, and if you add up all the millions of women taking the pill, it is a significant public health concern,\u201d Dr. Weiss added.<\/p>\n

The study was limited, the authors said, because they could not take into account factors like physical activity, breast feeding and alcohol consumption, which may also influence breast cancer risk.<\/p>\n

Officials with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said that they would carefully evaluate the new findings, but emphasized that hormonal contraceptives are for many women \u201camong the most safe, effective and accessible options available.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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