I will start taking the interest in breast cancer seriously when somebody does a study with women who have NEVER taken birth control pills as the control group.
I had an Aunt at the age of 35 who died of Breast Cancer. This was long before Birth Control. She was never married and never had children.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/oral-contraceptives
Scroll down to Item #2, second paragraph.
I’d like to see it exclude women who have had fertility treatments, HRT, or undergone voluntary abortions also. Messing with hormones seems to be a big risk factor. A good friend of mine just finished battling back an aggressive breast cancer for the second time, which her doctor attributes to fertility treatments a quarter century ago.
I have three close friends who have all had breast cancer in the last couple of years (diagnosed in their late 40’s early 50’s.) None had ever taken hormones or birth control pills. In fact none of the so called “risk” factors were evident in any of the women. No genetic predisposition, all had had children (one had a very large family) and they had started their families at a young age, etc. Just shows to go you that control is an illusion. You can do all the so called “right” things, eliminate the known risk factors and still get a disease.