kavin submitted, created time 4 months 5 days (womens-health.jwatch.org)

Reanalysis of forty-five studies verifies that oral contraceptives provide protection when women need it most, decades after use.

Although oral contraceptives (OCs) have been shown to reduce the risk for epithelial ovarian cancer, the duration of this protective effect has not been clearly defined. Now, investigators have reanalyzed data from forty-five case-control and prospective studies (primarily in Europe and the U.S.) including more than 23,000 women with ovarian cancer (cases; mean age at diagnosis, 56) and 87,000 women without the disease (controls)

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