Here is something I bet you didn’t know.
Submitted by Dr.Kattlove’s Cancer Blog
Birth control pills help prevent ovarian cancer. I didn’t know this either until I started working for the American Cancer Society. I always wrote about risk factors – things that increased the risk of cancer. It was rare that anything was proven to reduce the risk of cancer, other than avoiding the risk factors and leading a “healthy” life. But, to my surprise, I kept running across this fact – women who took birth control pills were less likely to develop ovarian cancer.