Claim: Birth Control Causes Cancer

Question

If you use birth control, you might be wondering whether it affects your chances of getting cancer, IUDs, birth control pills, birth control shots, and others raise or lower your risk.

Comments

Misleading may be fair but fear-mongering is a step too far in my opinion. While there might not be total truth to the statement the fact that there is some truth means it is an important idea to get out there. There are millions of people around the world on birth control and if any of it causes cancer everyone needs to be aware of that.

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Adding an additional source for this is a great job of fact-checking, I think the more quality sources you can have the more credibility you can claim. The sources you added I think provide additional good information and aren't unnecessary additions.

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Using birth control pills can reduce ovarian cancer risk by up to 50%, and this protective effect can last for many years after stopping use. Similarly, hormonal IUDs, which thin the endometrial lining, can help prevent or even treat early-stage endometrial cancer. It's understandable to be concerned about how birth control might affect your cancer risk. Interestingly, certain types of birth control can actually lower the risk of some cancers. For example, birth control pills and hormonal IUDs have been shown to significantly reduce the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancers
1. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/hormones/oral-contraceptives-fact-sheet
2. https://www.mskcc.org/news/birth-control-and-cancer-risk

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I like that you added additional sources to your claim. This further helped support your claim along with giving us a creditable source to look to. A summary to the links would also have been a nice touch.

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Although it has been disproved, there has been questions raised about whether birth Control causes cancer. Hormonal birth control, like the pill, might slightly raise the risk of certain cancers but it also lowers the risk of others, like ovarian and endometrial cancer.

Answer 1

Taking the combined pill, a contraceptive pill that contains hormones; estrogen and progestogen or mini pill, contraceptive pill only contains progestogen, has been seen to both increase and decrease likelihood of some cancers. For the combined pill it can lower the risk of ovarian cancer, only while people are taking it and Endometrial cancer, which stays even when people stop taking it. Combination pills have been seen to increase breast cancer and cervical cancer, but this increase goes away 10 years after you stop taking the pill. These increases, however, are small and the percentage is unclear for studies go back and forth. Along with that, the pill is not the only form of birth control. Condoms, non-hormonal IUDs and other non-hormonal birth controls do not cause an increase in risk of developing cancer. However most hormonal forms of birth control such as the patch, the shot, hormonal IUDs and like stated earlier the pill, has been linked to a slight increase of chances in developing some cancers, primarily breast and endometrial cancers. This idea, however, that all birth controls are the cause of cancer is a false and over simplified claim.  

Sources Used:

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/hormones-and-cancer/does-the-contraceptive-pill-increase-cancer-risk#:~:text=Cervical%20cancer%3A%20taking%20the%20combined,the%20pill%20was%20never%20used. 

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/hormones/oral-contraceptives-fact-sheet 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11759152/ 

https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/does-hormone-replacement-therapy-increase-cancer-risk.h00-159699123.html#:~:text=Yes.,breast%20cancer%20and%20endometrial%20cancer. 

https://www.breastcancer.org/news/hormonal-iuds-increase-breast-cancer-risk