Ten years after coming off the Pill, a woman is no more at risk of cancer or
circulatory disease than someone who has never used oral contraception,
according to a study of 46 000 British women backed by the Imperial Cancer
Research Fund. 鈥淭his is good news for women,鈥� says Valerie Beral of the
University of Oxford, who led the study (British Medical Journal, vol
318, p 96).
While taking the Pill, women face a 50 per cent greater risk of suffering
from circulatory diseases other than heart attacks and a 20 per cent increased
risk of breast cancer. However, these conditions are still relatively rare.