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Article: Safety call as cancer link to hair dye found
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- June 26, 2001
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SCIENTISTS today called for an urgent review of chemical safety
after analysing evidence that hair dye increases the risk of cancer.
The European Commission experts demanded swift action to
investigate research which suggests regular and prolonged use of
hair dyes increases the risk of killer tumours.
Recent research has indicated women using permanent dyes
regularly over a period of years could be trebling their chances of
getting the disease.
The fears are set to cause a public health scare which will be
particularly worrying to Scots medics.
One of the main forms of cancer thought to be increased by hair
dye use is bladder cancer, which has shown an alarming rise north of
the Border.
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