But Australian experts have been quick to point out that the risk of developing meningioma is still very low.
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Epidemiologists of PPE-PHARE, a structure common to the Health Insurance and the drug agency, established in June 2025 in the BMJ that a very widespread oral contraceptive, taken more than five years, increases the risk of meningioma. This tumor, most often benign, forms in membranes that envelop the brain and readily feeds on female hormones. The degestrel pill only raises this danger after several years of continuous dosing, and the effect dis…