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Article: Hair dye's link to cancer proves inconclusive
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- July 8, 2004
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HAIR dye may give the illusion of youth by covering gray hair, but
could it shorten your old age?
Both serious scientific studies and idle rumors have suggested
that dyeing your hair might be linked to developing cancer,
specifically bladder cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The research, however, is inconclusive.
In 1994, for example, the Food and Drug Administration and the
American Cancer Society released a study of more than 500,000 women
that showed no link between hair dye and cancer.
However, a report released early this year by scientists at Yale
University showed that women who had used dark hair dye before 1980
had a 40 percent greater risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ...