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Vow of chastity and the pill may keep nuns healthy Dec 8th 2011, 00:11 LONDON (Reuters) - Nuns should be offered the contraceptive pill, on health grounds, since it would cut their risk of getting cancer, two Australian doctors said on Thursday. The vow of chastity taken by the world's 95,000 Catholic nuns carries with it an increased risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers -- all of which are more common in women who do not have children. It is a problem that has been recognised for hundreds of years. In 1713, Italian physician Bernadino Ramazzini reported nuns had extremely high rates of the "accursed pest", breast cancer. ...

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