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Article: STUDY REINFORCES HAIR DYE SAFETY
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- February 1, 1994
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A major prospective study of more than 570,000 women over six years conducted by researchers at the American Cancer Society provides additional convincing evidence that hair dyes are safe.
The study, conducted by Dr. Michael Thun et al. of the American Cancer Society and published in the current Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), found that the use of hair dyes does not increase risk of cancer mortality, adding to the already large body of scientific evidence that hair dyes are safe and providing further reassurance for hair dye users.
One concern expressed by the authors was based on a statistical analysis of only five ...