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YEAR: 1977

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Liver tumors and contraceptive steroids: experience with the first one

hundred registry patients. (Editorial)

AUTHORS

CHRISTOPHERSON WM; MAYS ET

SOURCE

Journal of the National Cancer Institute 58(2): 167-171. February 1977.

ABSTRACT

Because of reasonable evidence that contraceptive steroids are involved in the sudden increase of benign liver

tumors in young women, a registry of liver tumors was initiated at the University of Louisville in late 1973 to provide a

source of clinical and pathologic data and drug association. Patients with benign tumors varied in age from 14 to 47

years; the average age was 29.8 years. The women tended to be long-term users; the length of exposure ranged

from 4 to 156 months. Attempts to produce liver tumors in young female mice by feeding contraceptive steroids over

many months have been unsuccessful. The risk of liver tumors in users appears to be very small and should be

evaluated in terms of the benefit of the medication. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 32-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Liver tumors and contraceptive steroids: experience with

the first one hundred registry patients. (Editorial)", is(are) CHRISTOPHERSON WM; MAYS ET. The source of this

article is "Journal of the National Cancer Institute 58(2): 167-171. February 1977.". This article was published in

1977 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 32-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info)

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