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Article: Good news for women who use hair dye. (research indicates no link between dye use and cancer) (Brief Article)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- October 22, 1994
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For the past 2 decades, the worrisome question of a possible connection between hair-coloring products and cancer has lingered over the heads of dye users.
For example, mice treated with hair dye can develop tumors. And some human studies have reported a link between cancer and these coloring agents, especially darkcolored permanent dyes such as brown or black.
In February, researchers reported that women who had relied on black hair dye for 20 years or longer ran a slightly increased risk of dying from certain blood-based cancers, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (SN: 2/5/94, p.86).
Now, epidemiologist Francine Grodstein and her colleagues at ...