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IT IS fairly obvious to anyone who has followed the recent correspondence in the Guardian, that the fact that the Pill may induce various forms of cancer has been known for a long time.

Just because hard evidence has taken longer to appear is no excuse for not warning people (or more to the point warning women).

There are a lot of flippant comments from the medical profession on how women would rather take the risks of the Pill than risk pregnancy.

Firstly, taking the Pill is not the only way of avoiding pregnancy. Other forms of contraception can be very effective.

Secondly, the last so-called "Pill scare" had the medical profession making the same remarks in relation to the report on thrombosis risks.

Yet every woman known to have read the report gave up the Pill!

It is interesting to note that very few of the workers in Family Planning Clinics use the Pill as their form of contraception.

Which only goes to show that if women actually know what risks they are taking, the vast majority decided not to continue taking those risks.

It is also true that the research did not go into other factors possibly linked to the incidence of cervical cancer - such as the number of sexual partners and frequency of sex at an "early" age.

Hygiene

Nor: did it go into the personal hygiene or circumcision of those partners.

This seems to be a tactor, because the incidence of cervical cancer in orthodox jewesses is very low... if there was a reverse of incidence of cancer female circumcision would be compulsory!

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