Can contraceptive pills cause PCOS?

Can contraceptive pills cause PCOS?

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), an endocrine disorder in females, is also a common cause of infertility and skin related problems in females. However, birth control pills that help to avert or contracept unwanted pregnancies are often related to PCOS. Let’s find out if contraceptive pills actually lead to PCOS.

​What’s the relation between them?

While the actual cause of PCOS remains unknown, it is believed that genetic and environmental factors may have a role to play in it. While the notion of contraceptive pills causing PCOS is absolutely a disgust since it is surprisingly responsible for controlling or curing severe side effects of PCOS such as:

1. Regulating the menstrual cycle.
2. Decreasing the risk of endometrial cancer or diseases.
3. Clearing the acne or skin problems.
4. Relieving the abdominal cramps during the periods.
5. It can significantly reduce the bleeding, averting the risk of anaemia in women.
6. Reducing the risk of cysts in the ovary.

What are the side effects of contraceptive pills?

Many studies prove that contraceptive pills have zero contribution in promoting PCOS but it isn’t necessarily important to carry zero side effects. Always be vigilant in choosing such pills, you should always opt for the one suggested by your physician, as it can lead to side effects like;

Bleeding spot

Nausea

Headache or body aches

Breast sores or enlargement

Weight fluctuations

Mood swings

Can we treat PCOS?

PCOS generally occurs due to an abnormal lifestyle practice that causes obesity or weight gain.

• However, if you simply include yoga and exercise in your routine, it can help you to keep up with your normal weight which will ultimately be responsible for lowering androgen, luteinizing hormone, and insulin levels that regulate the ovulation process.
• Consume a vitamin, protein and fibre rich diet to regulate your metabolism and other functions of the prime body organs.
• Certain diabetic drugs can also help in treating the PCOS symptom of insulin resistance and hence improving ovulation.
• Consult your physician and follow prescribed medicine to regulate PCOS simulated malfunctions.

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Cancer patients more likely to die of heart problems, stroke, according to a study

In a new study, researchers have found that a lot of people diagnosed with cancer are more likely to die of heart and blood vessel problems, instead of the main disease.

Even more, for cancers like those affecting breasts, prostate, endometrial and thyroid, around half of the patients will die from cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to the study.

For the study, researchers compared the US general population with over 3.2 million US patients who had been diagnosed with cancer between 1973 and 2012.

They used information contained in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database to look at deaths from CVD, which included heart disease, high blood pressure, cerebrovascular disease, blocked arteries and damage to the aorta- the main artery carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

They adjusted their analyses to take account of factors that could affect the results, such as age, race, and sex, and looked specifically at 28 types of cancer.

Among the 3,234,256 cancer patients, 38 %( 1,228,328) died from cancer and 11 % ( 365, 689) died from CVDs. Among the deaths from CVD, 76 % were due to heart disease, and risk of dying from CVD was highest in the 1st year after a cancer diagnosis and among patients younger than 35 years.

The majority of CVD deaths occurred in patients with cancer of the breast ( a total of 60,409 patients) and prostate (84,534 patients), as these are among the most common cancer to be diagnosed.

In 2012, 61 % of all cancer patients who died from CVD were diagnosed with breast, prostate or bladder cancer.

The proportion of cancer survivors dying from CVD was highest in bladder ( 19% of patients), larynx ( 17%), prostate ( 17%), womb ( 16 %), bowel ( 14 %) and breast ( 12 %) cancers.

Patients who were more likely to die from cancer than from CVD were those with the most aggressive and hard-to-treat cancers, such as cancer of the lung, liver, brain, stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, oesophagus, ovary and multiple myeloma.

A Dr. said , these findings show that a large proportion of certain cancer patients will die of cardiovascular disease, including heart disease, stroke, aneurysm, high BP and damage to blood vessels.

We also found that among survivors with any type of cancer diagnosed before the age of 55 years, the risk if cardiovascular death was more than 10-fold greater than in the general population, the Dr. added.

The risk of death from CVD is several times that of the general population in the 1st year of diagnosis; sometimes, this risk decreases, but for most, this risk increases as survivors are followed for 10 years or more, the researcher continued.

A radiation oncologist, stated the reason why cancer patients were more at risk of dying from CVD within the 1st year of diagnosis might be because when they entered the hospital system, other illnesses and problems, such as heart disease, lung dysfunction and kidney failure were also detected.

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New Blood Test Screens for Cancers With 99.4% Accuracy

In the vast majority of cases, cancer is not the fatal diagnosis it once was, but the key to recovery is early detection, which is still a problem for those cancer types that are more difficult to diagnose at earlier stages. But even here, the world of medicine is constantly making significant progress, and an excellent example of this is a new blood test that is capable of detecting over 20 types of cancer, including the more difficult-to-diagnose varieties like cervical, pancreatic, colorectal and breast cancer, with a 99.4% accuracy.

What Is This Test?

The blood test is based on cutting-edge genetic research that attempts to detect the genetic changes that happen to their DNA when a person is suffering from cancer. More specifically, the test looks for abnormal methylation in the DNA, which is a process when the DNA is altered by compounds known as methyl groups. The presence of these genetic abnormalities can point to different cancers, which is exactly what this new blood screening is trying to pinpoint.

The test was developed by Harvard University scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and it has recently undergone a series of trials suggesting the test is effective at diagnosing many different cancers. Out of the 3,586 blood samples collected from both cancer patients and healthy controls alike, the test identified cancer patients correctly with amazing 99.4% precision.

Furthermore, the scientists checked how well the test approximates the origin of the cancer, and it turns out that the test gets that right as well with 89% precision. But one of the greatest goals of the study was to show that the blood test is capable of detecting 14 high-risk cancers that account for 63% of cancer deaths, such as esophagus, breast, lung, gastric, ovary, pancreatic cancer, and others.

These cancers were detected correctly with 76% accuracy. More specifically, within this high-risk cancer group, the test accurately detected Stage I cancer 32% of the time, stage II - 76%, Stage III - 85%, and Stage IV - 93%. This is a great success, as many of these high mortality cancers are typically found in more advanced and difficult-to-treat stages.

Overall, this one blood test successfully detected ⅓ of patients with stage one cancer and ¾ of those suffering from stage two cancer, so it has an excellent potential of really improving current diagnostic practices and prevent many deaths. The researchers have recently presented the results of this trial in September 2019, at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress, and hopefully, this revolutionary technique will soon become a successful diagnostic tool for physicians worldwide.

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Infertility is associated with a higher risk of developing cancer in women of childbearing age, say researchers including one of Indian-origin.

The findings, showed that infertile women had an overall 18 per cent higher risk of developing cancer compared to women who were not infertile. 

However, the absolute risk is very low at just two per cent compared to 1.7 per cent among women who are not infertile, found researchers in the US.


"We do not know the causes of the increase in cancer that we found in this study, whether it might be the infertility itself, the causes of the infertility, or the infertility treatment," said the lead author.

"We can only show there is an association between them," she added.

For the study, the team analysed data from 64,345 infertile women who were followed for nearly four years. 

Although breast cancer was the most common in both fertile and infertile women, the team found a slightly higher risk of hormone-driven cancers of the ovary and uterus among the infertile women. 

They also found a slightly higher risk of cancers of the lung, thyroid, liver and gallbladder and leukemia among the infertile women. 

"While several of these associations were significant, it is important to note that the absolute increases in risk were modest," said the author.

"The low overall incidence of cancer among these women means that one in 49 infertile women would develop cancer during the follow-up period compared to one in 59 women who were not infertile," said another researcher.

Further research needs to be carried out to determine what factors may be influencing the long-term risk of cancer for infertile women, she  noted.

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Treating latent TB of the uterus improves pregnancy outcomes in infertile women Inbox

Treatment led to better quality eggs, implantation rate

For the first time, researchers have been able to find a direct association between latent TB of the endometrium (inner lining of the uterus) and fewer eggs in the ovary, technically called low ovarian reserve, in infertile women.

Compared with infertile women who did not have latent TB, there was significant improvement in pregnancy outcome in women with latent TB who had successfully completed the standard TB therapy lasting six months. Results of the study were published in the journal recently.

Low ovarian reserve

“We came across infertile women with low ovarian reserve having latent TB. So we wanted to find out if there was indeed any association between latent TB and low ovarian reserve in these women. Loss of fertility due to latent TB has not been studied before,” says a Dr. The team led by her undertook an observational study involving 431 infertile women with latent TB and 453 infertile women without latent TB. The women included in the study were in the 21–38 years age group and had infertility for more than two years and had received at least six cycles of ovulation induction with or without undergoing intrauterine insemination or IVF.

Though latent TB is generally believed not to have any clinical significance, earlier studies have shown that latent TB does cause silent inflammation. The present study did not look at whether latent TB was causing inflammation leading to loss of eggs. “The objective of the present study was not to find out how latent TB caused a reduction in ovarian reserve,” Dr. says.

Other causes

“Inflammation of the endometrium could affect the ovaries too or the TB bacteria could be present in the ovaries as well,” says one of the authors of the paper.

After completion of treatment for latent TB, infertile women had nearly 52% successful pregnancy compared with 40.5% in the case of infertile women who did not have latent TB.

Latent TB treatment did improve the chances of pregnancy. But the study did not look at whether the treatment halts the decline in eggs. “The women must be followed up for one year and the hormone that serves as a marker for ovarian reserve has to be tested to know if treatment halts ovarian decline,” says the Dr. 

“We know when the ovarian environment is affected the quality of eggs also gets affected. So what we saw was after the treatment, women had better quality eggs and the implantation rate was also proportionately higher when IVF was done,” says Dr. 

“If doctors come across infertile women with lower than normal anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) [which serves as a marker for ovarian reserve] then they may test for latent TB of the endometrium and start treatment to improve the pregnancy outcome,” says Dr. 

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