LARGE PROSPECTIVE STUDY FINDS NO ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE AND BREAST CANCER BUT INCREASED RISK FOR CERVICAL CANCER

摘要

Vessey and Yeates present the most recent and final results from the Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study, which began in England and Scotland in the late 1960s and closed in 2010. Between 1968 and 1974, 17,032 women were recruited from family planning clinics to study multiple lutcomes of contraceptive use over time. Publications derived from this study have examined mortality, cigarette smoking, and other characteristics over the years. A previous review on the association between cancer and oral contraceptive (OC) use was published in 2006.