Now in its fourth edition, this remains the most up-to-date and comprehensive handbook for any woman taking, or thinking of taking, the oral contraceptive pill. Dr. John Guillebaud Medical Director of the Margaret Pyke Centre for study and training in family planning presents the facts, dispels the myths, and answers the questions which are most often asked. This fully revised edition examines recent, reassuring research on the pill and cancer. It provides infromation on both new formulations of the pill and other methods of giving contraceptive hormones, including the latest, the vaginal ring.