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.
The findings were to be 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. The study was financed by Cancer Research UK, a charity, and Britain’s Medical Research Council.
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