QuoteReplyTopic: Black Hair Care Products Linked to Breast Cancer Posted: June 29 2006 at 10:18am
Hello Forum Members,
I have been perusing this site for a month now to find info on how to help my teen daughters' hair come back to life after years of overprocessing. I have found some usefull information and in the process have grown attached (almost addicted) to so many of you.
I just received an email regarding the link to Black hair care products and breast cancer. I've searched scambuster.org to make sure it's not a scam but there was no info on this email.
Anyway, if there is anyone with any additional information, please share. The article is below:
> >| PITTSBURGH UNIVERSITY | > > > >| CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ONCOLOGY | > > > >| Black Breast Cancer Linked to Hair Care | > > > >| by Allegra Battle | > > > >| For the New Pittsburgh Courier | > > > >| | > > > >| Every year, thousands of American women are diagnosed with some | > > > >| form of breast cancer. While white women are more likely to get the | > > > >| disease than any other racial group, African-American women are | > > > >| more likely to die from breast cancer because the disease is | > > > >| usually detected later. | > > > >| | > > > >| There are many risk factors for breast cancer, such as family | > > > >| history, age and possibly-what type of hair care products women | > > > >| buy. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, | > > > >| Center for Minority Health are looking into the link between | > > > >| African-American beauty products and breast cancer. | > > > >| | > > > >| The University of Pittsburgh research is based on a study by Dr. | > > > >| Chandra M. Tiwary, who studied a group of African-American girls | > > > >| that developed breasts and pubic hairs as toddlers. Dr. Tiwary | > > > >| identified one common factor with these young girls-all of their | > > > >| mothers had been using hair creams to fix the girls' hair and the | > > > >| creams contained hormones. The girls stopped developing breasts | > > > >| when their mother's stopped using the hair creams. According to Dr. | > > > >| Devra Davis, Director for the Center of Environmental Oncology at | > > > >| the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Dr. Tiwary's study | > > > >| is very powerful. | > > > >| | > > > >| "The more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the | > > > >| greater her risk of breast cancer," said Dr. Davis. | > > > >| | > > > >| Many African-American shampoos, styling gels and cosmetics contain | > > > >| several chemicals that are known to act like estrogens when placed | > > > >| on the scalp or body. These products are not regulated by the Food | > > > >| and Drug Administration. | > > > >| | > > > >| "The FDA only regulates cosmetics after they are released to the | > > > >| market place, if something is called a drug, than it is regulated | > > > >| by the FDA but if it is a cosmetic then it is not subject to the | > > > >| same level of scrutiny as are drugs," Dr. Davis said. | > > > >| | > > > >| This study has many women, wanting to take a closer look at the | > > > >| personal care products they buy. | > > > >| | > > > >| "We need to learn to be better consumers and read labels. We want | > > > >| to look our best, and we trust the people who make these | > > > >| products-we assume that the product is made for us to feel and look | > > > >| better," said breast cancer survivor, Evelyn Missouri of | > > > >| Versailles. | > > > >| | > > > >| Missouri was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984. She had a | > > > >| lumpectomy, where doctors removed part of her breast, and | > > > >| fortunately all of the cancer was taken out. She said her cancer | > > > >| was caused by prolonged exposure to an oral contraceptive with | > > > >| estrogen, and was never told that it was risky for women to be on | > > > >| birth control pills for more than 20 years. | > > > >| | > > > >| "I think lack of knowledge had a lot to do with it, I never thought | > > > >| about cancer in my life," Missouri said. | > > > >| | > > > >| Like Missouri, LaVerne P. Freeman's breast cancer was not directly | > > > >| caused by chemicals in personal care products. Freeman died in | > > > >| October of 1998, and her daughter Harriett C. Jackson of Duquesne | > > > >| said her mother had natural hair, and rarely used hair care | > > > >| products at all. | > > > >| | > > > >| "Cancer is a complex disease; it arises from many different | > > > >| things," Dr. Davis said. | > > > >| | > > > >| Even though cancer is complex, there are many risk factors that | > > > >| women can avoid to lower the chance of the disease that include, | > > > >| smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding excessive | > > > >| alcohol use.
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Just wanted to inform you ladies since I have lost so many friends and family members to breast cancer.
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At least two months ago WPXI contacted me to do an interview about ingredients in hair care products used by African-Americans possibly leading to breast cancer. I was selected because I am a 15-year breast cancer survivor.
I agreed to do the interview. However at the end of the taping I didn't know anything more about the study than before the cameras started rolling. Recently WAMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier freelance writer Allegra Battle did a story on this same subject and it was a feature on the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these stories we still did not have a list of the products.
Battle gave me the list that didn't make her feature during a recent visit I made to the WAMO studio's promoting the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. So many of my friends have seen the stories on television or read about this issue in the paper and they want to know which products to be concerned about.
However I wanted to give you more so I went to the Internet and looked for articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one titled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines Environmental Suspects (update spring 2005).
The article stated, one of immediate research priorities of the new center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in African-Americans under the age of 40, who have nearly twice as much breast cancer as do white women. The center will work with Silent Spring Institute, a Massachusetts based cancer institute, to identify suspect contaminants and ingredients in hair care products and other personal products regularly used by African-American young women and their mothers.
More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in hair care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for higher cancer rates in this population.
I've started to carry copies of the list in my purse but we're going to share it with you right here. The list simply says: The following is a list of products that have previously been found to contain hormones:
Placenta Shampoo
Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
Placenta revitalizing shampoo
Perm Repair with placenta
Proline Perm Repair with placenta
Hormone hair food Jojoba oil
Triple action super grow
Supreme Vita-Gro
Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
B & B Super Gro
Lekair Natural Super Glo
Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E
Isoplus Hormone hair treatment with Quinine
Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO
Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
Nu Skin body smoother
Nu Skin Enhancer
The majority of these products contain placental extract, placenta, hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Environmental oncology, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens, synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer.
Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not born, but made and the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the greater her risk of breast cancer."
We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair and our bodies and demand that more information about our health is shared. Ladies and gentlemen beware.
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WOW THAT'S A SERIOUS ISSUE BECAUSE WOMEN AFRICAN AMERICAN TO BE SPECIFIC HAVE A HIGHER RATE OF GETTING BREAST CANCER AND MY AUNT LOST HER FIGHT AGAINST IT ABOUT 7 YEARS AGO
well it seems 2 me that a lot of those products listed above are intended to promote growth, which maybe is a cause of health problems because it causes unsual, or forced hair growth. i personally would never use anything that says 'placenta' on it, it makes me think of birth!!
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