Of course, it's up to every woman and her individual situation as to whether the pill is right for her... but there is definitely a link that doesn't get talked about by most doctors in their rush to prescribe it. The link isn't just with women who are already at risk:
— A study of 103,000 Norwegian and Swedish women between the ages of 30 and 49 uncovered that the women who took birth control pills had a 26% higher risk of developing breast cancer than those who never used the pill. Women who had used the pill for long periods of time increased their risk of breast cancer by 58%; women using the pill over 45 years of age had an increased risk of 144%.