Long-Term Use Of Hormonal Contraceptives Leads To Glioma

Long-Term Use Of Hormonal Contraceptives Leads To Glioma.
The danger for developing a choice form of brain cancer known as glioma appears to go up with long-term use of hormonal contraceptives such as the Pill, late Danish research suggests. Women under 50 with a glioma "were 90 percent more expected to have been using hormonal contraceptives for five years or more, compared with women from the run-of-the-mill population with no history of brain tumor," said study leader Dr David Gaist suhil er ma'r long chodon. However, the Danish boning up couldn't prove cause-and-effect, and Gaist stressed that the findings "need to be put in context" for women because "glioma is very rare".

How rare? Only five out of every 100000 Danish women between the ages of 15 and 49 expose the state each year, according to Gaist, a professor of neurology at Odense University Hospital. He said that count on includes women who to go contraceptives such as the birth control pill. So, "an overall risk-benefit evaluation favors continued use of hormonal contraceptives" related site. The findings were published online in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

In the study, Gaist's set looked at management data on all Danish women between the ages of 15 and 49 who had developed a glioma between 2000 and 2009. In all, investigators identified 317 glioma cases, to each whom nearly 60 percent had occupied a contraceptive at some point. They then compared them to more than 2100 glioma-free women of nearly the same ages, about half of whom had used contraceptives. Use of the Pill or other hormonal contraceptive did appear to tumescence up the risk for glioma, the researchers reported, and the risk seemed to occur with the duration of use.