Alert for millions of women taking contraceptive injection as study finds drug may raise risk of brain tumours by five-fold : vimarsana.com

Long term use of medroxyprogesterone acetate - known under the brand name Depo Provera - was found to raise the risk of meningioma, a type of brain tumour, more than five-fold.

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