gynecology and obstetrics
Oral Contraceptives
Benefits of Oral Contraceptives
OCs have some very important health benefits. High- and low-dose combination OCs decrease the risk of ( Benefits reference ) Endometrial Cancer by 60% after at least 10 years of use Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneal Cancer by about 50% after 5 years of use and 80% after ≥ 10 years of use They also decrease the risk of Functional ovarian cysts , 1.Iversen L, Sivasubramaniam S, Lee AJ, et al: Lifetime cancer risk and combined oral contraceptives: the Royal College of General Practitioners' Oral Contraception Study.Am J Obstet Gynecol216(6):580.e1-580.e9, 2017. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2017.02.002 