Having a Baby Reduces Risk of Ovarian Cancer, Study
Posted on: 05/Nov/2015 5:15:32 PM
A new study claims that women who have a baby has got lesser risk of developing ovarian cancer and the risk factor is lesser as she gets subsequent child. For the UK million women study, data were collected from more than 8000 women. This revealed that there was a 20 percent lesser chance of ovarian cancer for women who have one child compared to those who don`t have any child at all. For these women with one child, there is a 40 percent reduction in the chance of developing endometrioid and cell tumors.
Women with more than one child had even lesser possibilities of developing ovarian cancer and the possibility reduces with every subsequent child delivered by the woman.
The study also claims that giving birth to babies is an actionable cancer deterrent. This is not very simple. The research also involved studying women whose fallopian tubes were surgically clipped or removed which is a permanent means of contraception. Such women who had undergone this procedure also enjoy 20 percent lesser risk of the cancer. The study also adds that causes for ovarian cancer is more complicated than it was once believed.
In the recent years, we have got a better understanding of ovarian cancer by conducting various researchers, says Kezia Gaitskell, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford and lead researcher of the study.
Most of the high-grade senior tumors begin at the fallopian tube, whereas few others like endometrioid and clear cell tumors develop at endometriosis. These findings were presented at the 2015 National Cancer Research Institute conference in the UK that took place this week. This research result doesn`t mean that one can think of giving birth to several children so as to keep ovarian cancer at bay, but statistically, the risk is lesser with women who give birth to many children.
