Long-Term Use Of Hormonal Contraceptives Leads To Glioma

Long-Term Use Of Hormonal Contraceptives Leads To Glioma.
The imperil for developing a collectable form of brain cancer known as glioma appears to go up with long-term use of hormonal contraceptives such as the Pill, recent Danish research suggests. Women under 50 with a glioma "were 90 percent more disposed to to have been using hormonal contraceptives for five years or more, compared with women from the imprecise population with no history of brain tumor," said study leader Dr David Gaist. However, the Danish contemplation 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 age the train each year, according to Gaist, a professor of neurology at Odense University Hospital. He said that accept includes women who gulp down contraceptives such as the birth control pill. So, "an overall risk-benefit evaluation favors continued use of hormonal contraceptives". The findings were published online in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

In the study, Gaist's group looked at regulation 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, surrounded by whom nearly 60 percent had employed a contraceptive at some point. They then compared them to more than 2100 glioma-free women of like ages, about half of whom had used contraceptives. Use of the Pill or other hormonal contraceptive did appear to welt up the risk for glioma, the researchers reported, and the risk seemed to ascension with the duration of use.