Minimising breast cancer risk - Maintain a healthy weight. Obesity increases your risk of postmenopausal breast cancer by 50 to 100 per cent (Am J Clin Nutrition, 1987; 45: 289). It...

Cancer risk doubles with pill - Women on the contraceptive pill double the risk of developing cervical cancer, new research has discovered. The risk quadruples if a woman takes the P...

Hrt : cancer risk - A large scale study of all former trials of breast cancer risks with hormone replacement therapy shows a definite link between a risk of cancer and le...

The Pill: It can double your cancer risk, even years later - Is the birth control pill as safe as the latest research suggests? Last autumn researchers concluded that not only did the pill not increase the risk...

Contraceptive has high cancer risk - Depo-Provera, the long-lasting contraceptive that can be injected, doubles the risk of breast cancer among women who have taken it for less than five...

Tamoxifen: cancer risk - There is growing evidence that those proposing to prescribe the drug tamoxifen as a preventative measure to women supposedly at high risk of breast ca...

Endometrial cancer risk greater with tamoxifen - New evidence from two studies show that women who take tamoxifen to prevent or treat breast cancer are at greater risk of endometrial abnormalities, i...

Pesticides:more evidence of cancer risk - New evidence confirms that exposure to organochlorine compounds raises a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. ...