All are benefits of OCP's EXCEPT:: (A) Improve menstrual abnormality, (B) Protect against unwanted pregnancy, (C) Protect from breast cancer, (D) Protect from endometrial cancer
Answer is C. Ans. (c) Protect from breast cancerRef D.C Dutta 8th Ed./g 625BENEFITS OF COMBINED ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES (COCS)* Contraceptive benefits:# Protection against unwanted pregnancy (failure rate- 0.1 per 100 women year)# Convenient to use# Not intercourse related# Reversibility# Improving maternal and child health care* Non-contraceptive benefits:# Improvement of menstrual abnormalities# Reduction of dysmenorrhea (40%)# Reduction of menorrhagia (50%)# Reduction of premenstrual tension syndrome (PM)# Prevention of malignancies like Endometrial cancer (50%), Epithelial ovarian cancer 50%, Colorectal cancer (40%).