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CANCER RISKS: Researchers have established the risks of different types of ovarian cancer according to whether a woman has children. 

They also found that women who had their fallopian tubes cut during sterilisation have a lower risk of cancer – possibly because some ovarian cancers start in the fallopian tubes.

In the new study, experts found that women with one child had around a 20% reduction in the risk of developing any type of ovarian cancer compared to women without children. Each extra child then led to an estimated 8% reduction in the overall risk of ovarian cancer.