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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Oral contraceptives: relation to mammary cancer, benign breast lesions, and

cervical cancer.

AUTHORS

Drill VA

SOURCE

Annual Review of Pharmacology 15: 367-385. 1975.

ABSTRACT

The clinical and experimental literature on the relation of estrogen, progestins, and oral contraceptives (OCs) to

breast cancer, benign breast lesions, and cervical cancer is reviewed. Experimental studies on the relation of

estrogens and OCs to mammary lesions indicate a varying response that largely depends up on the species and

strain of animal studied. Various clinical studies have failed to show that estrogens or OCs cause breast cancer;

similar findings have been reported in animal studies. Estrogen has been found to increase the incidence of

cervical cancer in certain strains of mice, although such an effect has not been demonstrated in other species and

man. Most studies agree that OCs do not adversely affect the incidence of abnormal Papanicolaou smears, cervical

dysplasia, cervical cancer in situ, or invasive cervical cancer. Progesterone has effectively brought about remission

in cases of cervical cancer, as have progestins in cases of breast cancer.(AUTHOR'S, MODIFIED) (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT7T 3007-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Oral contraceptives: relation to mammary cancer, benign

breast lesions, and cervical cancer.", is(are) Drill VA. The source of this article is "Annual Review of Pharmacology

15: 367-385. 1975.". This article was published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT7T 3007-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 33007

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