The Pill Cuts Womb Cancer Cases By 200,000

The Pill has helped to prevent 200,000 cases of womb cancer over the past decade alone, according to Oxford University researchers. For every five years that a woman takes the oral contraceptive, the risk of developing endometrial cancer decreases by 25%. In females who have taken the Pill for 10 years, rates of womb cancer diagnosis in under-75s also fall from 2.3 per 100 to just 1.3.