The first thing I'd say is 'Don't panic'. The headlines might sound alarming but when you dig down into the figures, it's clear that your risk of breast below the age of 50 is still small, no matter what form of contraception you're on. And in your 20s and 30s, it's minuscule.What's important to remember when reading cancer-risk statistics like these is that increases are expressed as percentages of existing numbers that are in fact very low.A 30-year-old woman's likelihood of getting breast cancer in the next ten years, for example, is less than one per cent, so a 26 per cent increase on that — the rise associated with taking the progestogen-only pill for five years in this study — will still be tiny. The figure for a 40-year-old is roughly 1.6 per cent, so if her risk also goes up by 26 per cent, she's looking at a two per cent overall risk instead. Still very small.
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