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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION
Volume 18, Issue 5, Pages 407-411Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/CEJ.0b013e32832caaca
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colorectal cancer; cutaneous malignant melanoma; liver cancers; lung cancer; oral contraceptives; risk; thyroid cancer
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- Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC)
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We reviewed epidemiological data on oral contraceptive (OC) use and colorectal, liver, lung and other nonfemale neoplasms. The data for colorectal cancer are suggestive of a favourable effect of OC, in the absence, however, of any duration-risk relation. Current, but not past, OC use is associated with excess risk of benign liver tumours, and a modest excess risk of liver cancer. The association with liver cancer was smaller for recent low-dose OC. There was no evidence of an association between OC use and lung, digestive tract neoplasms other than colorectum, cutaneous malignant melanoma, thyroid cancer and any of the other neoplasms investigated. European Journal of Cancer Prevention 18:407-411 (C) 2009 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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