LONDON - Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it, scientists said.
British researchers found that women taking the pill for 15 years halved their chances of developing ovarian cancer, and that the risk remained low more than 30 years later, though protection weakened over time. The findings were published Friday in The Lancet.
"Not only does the pill prevent pregnancy, but in the long term, you actually get less cancer as well," said Valerie Beral, the study's lead author and director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University. "It's a nice bonus." The study was paid for by Cancer Research UK and Britain's Medical Research Council.
How long do you think it will take for James Dobson, Pat Robertson, or [insert fanatically religious douche bag here] to spontaneously combust due to feigned moral outrage?
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