Austin doctors react to new study linking birth control to breast cancer

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new study is sending some women into a panic.
It turns out those newer birth control pills don’t lower breast cancer risk. A study in a New England Journal of Medicine following nearly 2 million women found their risk jumped 20 percent. After 10 years, it grew to nearly 38 percent.
A link between hormonal contraceptives and cancer is nothing new in the medical world. But the new research out of Denmark surprised some local doctors.
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