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In my crusade for finding ways to prevent and raise awareness of ovarian cancer–here is some vital information for women whose mothers, like mine,  died from the disease.      


 Reuters reports:     Pill prevents ovarian cancer for decades 

  

LONDON - Birth control pills can protect women against ovarian cancer for 30 years or longer after they stop taking them and have so far prevented 100,000 ovarian cancer deaths worldwide, British researchers said on Thursday. The longer women stay on the pill, the lower their risk of developing the disease, which is more common after age 50, the researchers wrote in the journal Lancet. For example, women who take the pill for 15 years cut their risk in half, they said.               

Worldwide the pill has already prevented 200,000 women from developing cancer of the ovary and has prevented 100,000 deaths from the disease, Valerie Beral of the University of Oxford and colleagues wrote in their report.