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How do you counsel a woman regarding her previous hormonal contraception and the risks with her newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer?

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Medical Oncology · Cleveland Clinic Florida
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I believe the risk of breast cancer from the use of hormonal contraception is very small, in the absence of other contributing risk factors such as family history.

A recent 2017 NEJM article (Morch et al) assessed the associations in a large cohort of 1.8 million women in Denmark followed for > 10 ye...

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