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The birth control pill and cancer: What are the risks?

Originally published by PolitiFact. A flood of recent social media posts described hormonal birth control pills as cancer causing. “The WHO has just released a statement labeling birth control pills as a Group 1 cancer-causing agent,” one conservative commentator wrote March 8 on X.

The birth control pill and cancer: What are the risks?

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