Thousands of women who take the pill do not run a higher risk of potentially deadly liver cancer, research suggested today.
Studies have long suggested that there can be a connection between the combined oral contraceptive pill and the risk of developing tumors in the liver.
This is because the contraceptive pill contains the hormone estrogen, which scientists believe can grow some cancer cells.
But now, in one of the largest studies with more than 1.5 million British women, researchers discovered that there was ‘little or no association’ between taking the pill and liver cancer.
Experts, who said that the study was the ‘most extensive so far’, concluded that there was ‘no general link’.
Liver cancer now kills 5,800 people in the UK every year compared to 2,200 in the late 1990s, making it the fastest rising killer of the UKs and is responsible for double the killing of skin cancer.
It is currently the eighth most common cause of the death of cancer in the UK, but by 2040 the charity warns that the sixth could rank.
Cancer Research UK figures also suggest that the disease of the disease has risen by 86 percent of 25 to 49-year-olds since the 1990s.
Studies have long suggested that there may be a connection between the combined oral contraceptive pill and the risk of developing tumors in the liver
Liver cancer now kills 5,800 people in the UK every year compared to 2,200 in the late 1990s, making it the fastest rising murderer of the UKs and is responsible for double the deaths of skin cancer
In the study, researchers analyzed data from 23 previous studies and the British Biobank Health Study with more than a million women.
They compared women who had ever used a contraceptive pill with those they never used and discovered that there were 5,400 cases of liver cancer recorded in all studies.
Writing in the magazine The Lancet Oncology, the researchers said there was’No connection with the risk of liver cancer ‘.
However, they added that there was “weak evidence that women who used the contraceptive pill for longer periods had a very slightly increased risk of liver cancer (6 percent) per 5 years.”
They said this, probably due to non -measured factors such as patients who had hepatitis B or C infection – an important risk factor for liver cancer.
About one in four cases of liver cancer in the UK are also caused by obesity, while a fifth is related to smoking and one in 14 is due to excessive alcohol, research shows.
The newest NHS figures for suggestion that there were nearly 3 million recipes for the combined pill and more than 4 million for the mini pill, which only contains progestogenic.
About a quarter of all women aged 15 to 49 are on the only combined or progesterone pill.
The NHS says that natural family planning can be effective up to 99 percent when it is performed correctly and about 75 percent if it is not used according to the instructions. For comparison: the pill, implant, IUS and IUD are 99 percent effective with perfect use, while condoms are 98 percent
According to the NHS data, the proportion of women who take oral contraceptives has fallen by more than two-thirds, from 420,600 in 2012/13 to 126,400 in 2022/23. About 555,400 women turned to the sexual and reproductive health services of health care in 2022/23-similar to four percent of 13 to 54-year-olds
Taken every day, it works by releasing an egg every month by the ovaries.
It also thicker the cervical mucus and diluting the uterus lining to prevent sperm from reaching an egg and attaching to the womb.
It is more than 99 percent effective with perfect use, but if it is used incorrectly – such as missing a pill or experiencing nausea and diarrhea while it is on it – is One in ten women (9 percent) can become pregnant.
Well -known side effects of the pill are nausea, sensitivity of breasts, mood swings and headaches.
Others claim that they stack on kilos while taking the fluid retention and appetite, but the NHS says there is no evidence that it leads to weight gain.
Tens of years of research has not provided convincing evidence that this assumed side effect is realistic.
Self-sided side effects, however, include blood clots and a somewhat increased risk of breast and cervical cancer.
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