Are there any contraceptive pills on the market that can be used in women with an increased risk of cancer? My mother suffered from a severe cancer - it started with a cancer on the adrenal glands, then metastasized (uterus, breasts, etc.). I'm 25 years old, we only use condoms, which is a very uncomfortable method of contraception.
The risk factors for neoplastic disease within the reproductive organ include obesity at the age of 50-59, hyperestrogenism (i.e. excess estrogens of external or internal origin), diabetes, hypertension, inheritance, late menopause, anovulatory cycles, ovarian syndrome polycyclic, impaired liver function. The risk factors for breast cancer are largely similar. As for adrenal neoplasms - these are most often tumors related to the human endocrine system - unfortunately you give too little data on the diagnosis of adrenal cancer, in rare cases they are hormonally inactive tumors (the so-called incidentalomas are usually hormonally inactive, but occasionally may have hormonal activity). Any long-term interference with hormones administered in tablets violates the very complex system of hormonal regulation of the body - there are no exogenous hormones that are "neutral" to he alth. As for the threat in the second generation - I was looking for an answer to your question in the medical database Medline, which collects 10 million scientific papers in the field of medicine, but I have not found any scientific studies on this subject. Modern, low-dose contraceptive pills have been used relatively recently, and perhaps too little time has passed before scientific data on the long-term effects on the body of people with different risk factors can be available. So I can answer that there is no scientific information whether hormonal contraception increases the risk of developing cancer in a person with a family history of cancer - but I would consider the possibility of increasing such risk. The choice between the certain inconvenience of using a condom as a method of contraception and the potential increase in the risk of cancer in the future is undoubtedly difficult and is entirely up to the patient. I personally think that he althier discomfort is better than unhe althy comfort.
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Krystyna KnyplInternist, hypertensiologist, editor-in-chief of "Gazeta dla Lekarzy".
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