(NaturalHealth365) Did you know that oral contraceptives were classified as carcinogenic? I knew there were many side effects from the birth control pill, but when I discovered that they were classified as a “group 1 carcinogen”, I was shocked. According to the World Health Organization, oral contraceptives fall into the group one carcinogen category, which means a ‘known and probable’ cancer-causing agent to human beings. Examples of group one carcinogens are tobacco, asbestos, plutonium, diesel exhaust and “the pill”. Does that mean that everyone who is exposed to group 1 carcinogens develop cancer? Not necessarily, but the chances of developing cancer are much higher. In August 2014, the American Association for Cancer Research, released an article called, “Recent Use of Some Birth Control Pills Increase Breast Cancer Risk.” In a nested case-control study of 1,102 women diagnosed with breast cancer and 21,952 controls, scientists found that recent oral contraceptive use increased breast cancer risk by 50 percent, compared with never or former use.
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