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A few women taking the Pill found to have benign liver tumors Concern is mounting over the possible relationship between oral contraceptives and benign primary liver tumors that sometimes rupture with subsequent life-threatening hemorrhage. Such patients may turn up in emergency rooms. "Cases are popping up all over the country and in Europe now," E. Truman Mays, MD, told the American College of Surgeons meeting in Miami Beach. "But the exact incidence will not be known for some time." He said primary liver tumors in young women had been considered rare. At least 50 proved cases, including 12 of his own, have been reported so far, said Dr. Mays, who is professor of surgery at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. But he believes that more cases may have gone unrecognized because many physicians don't consider the possibility of liver involvement in a young woman with intraperitoneal hemorrhage.

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