NYT: Birth Control Pills Still Linked to Breast Cancer, Study Finds

[TomSea]

Birth Control Pills Still Linked to Breast Cancer, Study Finds
Roni Caryn Rabin

The study found few differences in risk between the formulations; women cannot protect themselves by turning to implants or intrauterine devices that release a hormone directly into the uterus.

The research also suggests that the hormone progestin — widely used in today’s birth control methods — may be raising breast cancer risk.

“This 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’t know anything about I.U.D.’s,” said Dr. Marisa Weiss, an oncologist who founded the website breastcancer.org and was not involved in the study. “Gynecologists just assumed that a lower dose of hormone meant a lower risk of cancer. But the same elevated risk is there.”

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/health/birth-control-breast-cancer-hormones.html

[TomSea]

This is a long time point of contention; so the fact that the NYT is reporting it is fairly remarkable. This is usually an argument pro-lifers make only for that point to then be rebutted.