IU Contraception During Breast Cancer & More (International Breast Cancer Decisions Versus Mainland)
Someone wrote yesterday and asked if oral contraceptives raise breast cancer risk, what about IUDs? Great question.
So I dove into the literature yesterday to take a scientific peek.
The question became, as there were no studies on this in women without breast cancer, can women with breast cancer use IUDs for contraception.
What do the studies say?
That’s where I always go, Pubmed.gov - though it’s now somewhat captured, so have to keep that in mind.
I’ve noticed that some studies are disappearing or getting harder and harder to find.
This “tells” me, since I have lived on PubMed.gov for decades, that this has been intentional. And boy, comparing how French doctors figure this out compared to US doctors, according to a data search, was fascinating. In France they require “informed consent”.
Read on.