There's more research to do, but the initial results are interesting. The pharmaceutical products have had negative impacts once the chemicals get into the water, so it wouldn't be a complete surprise if there's a link. BBC News:
But experts stress this is not proof that one causes the other and it might be a fluke finding.On a related subject, we are now in the middle of Movember. There is still time to grow a mustache for charity or find someone you know that is participating in the charity and donate for a good cause. I'm not a facial hair person so am going nuts with the scratchiness of growing it, but the charity is about raising money for men's health issues including prostate cancer.
The researchers believe oestrogen by-products excreted in the urine of pill-users may have contaminated the food chain and drinking water.
The hormone is known to feed the growth of certain cancers.
The latest investigation looked at data from 2007 for individual nations and continents worldwide to see if there was any link.
The researchers found a significant association between contraceptive pill use in the population as a whole with both the number of new cases of, and deaths from, prostate cancer.
