Oral contraceptive use associated with increased risk of breast cancer
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 04:56
in Health & Medicine
Investigators from the Slone Epidemiology Centre at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have reported that African American women who use oral contraceptives have a greater likelihood of developing breast cancer than nonusers. The study results, recently published on-line in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, were based on data from the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS), a large follow-up study of 59,000 African American women from across the U.S. conducted by investigators at the Slone Epidemiology Centre since 1995...