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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/no-connection-between-breast-cancer-and-the-pill/">No Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Pill</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted October 16, 2007 at 03:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Women on the birth control who worried about an increased risk of breast cancer can breathe a little easier. A new study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology has found that there is no connection between the death rate among breast cancer patients and their use of oral contraceptives. Dr. Herbert R. Peterson, one of the authors of the study, called the results “broadly reassuring” for women concerned about taking the pill to prevent pregnancy or regulate hormonal imbalances. According to Peterson, worries first cropped up about a possible link between breast cancer and the pill in 1996, when an analysis of 54 studies found that there seemed to be a higher rate of diagnosis among women who were using oral contraceptives. However, researchers now think that this result may have more to…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/no-connection-between-breast-cancer-and-the-pill/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/no-connection-between-breast-cancer-and-the-pill/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/no-connection-between-breast-cancer-and-the-pill/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/no-connection-between-breast-cancer-and-the-pill/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>