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Article: Hair dyes linked to cancer.
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- August 1, 1992
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First, the press kit arrives from the hair products industry, containing letters from "top scientists" at major medical centers. Each offers a detailed critique of a new study showing that hair dyes are associated with an increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissues. The study's findings were characterized in the industry's press release as "incorrect and needlessly alarmist."
The study that so alarmed the hair dye manufacturers arrived several days later in the July issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Shelia Hoar Zahm, Sc.D., and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute questioned 426 people with blood cancers ...