A cancer awareness group says as schools pass out birth control to young girls, they are failing to notify them about an increased health risk.
According to Karen Malec, president of The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, young girls who are prescribed estrogen+progestin-based birth control by their school nurses are at an increased risk for breast, cervix, and liver cancer. World Health Organization conducted a study in 2005 and found that type of birth control carcinogenic. "In other words, they cause cancer in human beings," she notes. "And they assign these drugs the highest level of carcinogenicity -- the highest level is group one." Malec believes the worst time in a young woman's life to be exposed to this level of carcinogen is before the birth of her first child. The Coalition is urging concerned parents and individuals to contact their school officials. "But it's really the doctors and the nurses who are responsible for giving the information to the high school officials. They're not doing that, and so we're just asking people to please contact the high school's officials and let them know about this fact that the World Health Organization has acknowledged these drugs as cancer-causing."
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