Hair color cancer risk found
Heavy hair color users might want to back off a bit
For most of you who use haircolor sparingly need not be too concerned, but if your are middle age and have colored your hair several times a year since you were 12 you might want to read this article pretty carefully.
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Hair treatment increases cancer risk, study concludes Researchers conducting the hair-raising study analyzed data from six European countries and found a 19 percent increase of non-Hodgkins lymphoma cases among people who said they used hair dye. The risk increased to 26 percent for the dyeing-addicted who colored their locks 12 or more times a year. And for those who used carcinogen-filled dyes popular decades ago, it jumped to a 37 percent risk for the cancer, researchers found. |
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Hi there I would like to find a prof. colour that I could use on my many cancer client, that would like to colour their hair I do a lot of work fitting wigs and reshaping hair when it grows although i it can be heart breaking at times . It makes you feel so good to bring a smile to their face cheers Lidia
Comment by lidia cammarano — October 5, 2009 @ 3:00 am