Contraceptive pill could increase your risk of breast cancer

New Delhi, July 03: Cancer, One of the dangerous disease in the world, here the new research suggests that Taking the contraceptive pill could increase your risk of breast cancer.

According to the study from the University of Michigan has revealed that some commonly prescribed birth control pills may quadruple levels of synthetic estrogen and progesterone hormones.

Both of which are thought to play a part in stimulating breast cancers to grow, which is why some breast cancer patients are prescribed hormone therapy to block their effects on cancer cells.

The research showed that blood taken from women who use birth control pills contained much higher levels of hormones compared to women who don't.

And, that four out of seven formulations tested were found to quadruple the levels of progestin, a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone.

Another formulation also resulted in 40 percent higher exposure to Ethinyl estradiol, the synthetic version of estrogen.

Despite the findings, the study's lead author, human evolutionary biologist Beverly Strassmann, stressed that the contraceptive pill has had such a positive effect on the lives of so many women.

But, that it's also important for companies to design birth control pills in a way that doesn’t contribute to a greater risk of breast can