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A Toxic Chemical Used in Hair Products for Black Women Fuels Breast Cancer, Study Finds

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the beauty-products-again dept.

upstart writes:

A toxic chemical used in hair products for black women fuels breast cancer, study finds:

Haircare and beauty products marketed to black women often contain a class of hormone-disrupting chemicals called parabens. According to a new study, those chemicals are not only linked to increased breast cancer risk, they uniquely fuel the spread of cancer cells in black women, compared to white women.

Parabens are a group of chemicals that keep mold and bacteria from growing on beauty products, thus prolonging their shelf lives. But, in humans, parabens can mimic the hormone estrogen, possibly fueling dangerous cell growth, according to research.

The study, which will be presented today at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Atlanta, analysed the effect parabens had on breast cancer cells from both black women and white women. Researchers found parabens increased the growth of black breast cancer cell lines, but did not effect white breast cancer cell lines at the same dose.

Parabens also increased the expression of genes linked to breast cancer in both black and white women.

"Black women are more likely to buy and use hair products with these types of chemicals, but we do not have a lot of data about how parabens may increase breast cancer risk in black women," Lindsey S. Treviño, the study's lead researcher, said in a press release. "This is because black women have not been picked to take part in most research studies looking at this link. Also, studies to test this link have only used breast cancer cell lines from white women."

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:46PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:46PM (#1253731)

    Oh please. Just cut that fuzz close to the scalp and be done with it. Black WOMEN do not want that. They want hair they can style like all other races. Why can't they accept their own black hair? Dreadlocks are filthy and a rejection of natural black hair. Any homeless person can get matted dreadlocks.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:49PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday June 16 2022, @05:49PM (#1253733) Journal

    Why can't they accept their own black hair?

    Because they will get fired from their jobs for wearing it natural..

    • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Thursday June 16 2022, @08:30PM

      by Opportunist (5545) on Thursday June 16 2022, @08:30PM (#1253770)

      Then I guess the actual story here is that kind of racism? Just maybe?

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by Booga1 on Friday June 17 2022, @12:59AM

      by Booga1 (6333) on Friday June 17 2022, @12:59AM (#1253861)

      Sad that someone marked you as a troll for telling the truth... It's not hard to find examples of black people fired for their hairstyles.

      https://www.courthousenews.com/bp-accused-of-racism-by-fired-top-executive/ [courthousenews.com]

      "'You intimidate and make your colleagues uncomfortable by wearing ethnic clothing and ethnic hairstyles ('Dashikis,' 'twists,' 'braids/cornrows'). If you insist on wearing ethnic clothing/hairstyles-you should only do so during 'culture day,' black history month or special diversity events/days."

      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-woman-fired-for-wearing-natural-hair-instead-of-a-wig-louisiana-lawsuit-says/ar-AAQ4ttO [msn.com]

      HR relayed the message to the owner, who reportedly replied: “Is (Ms. Jackson) going to fix her hair?”
      Two days later, attorneys for the EEOC said the company owner told Jackson her hair was “unacceptable” and that she needed to wear the wig instead.

      https://medium.com/@thenoblejournalist/why-i-disappeared-from-the-news-desk-at-wjtv-in-jackson-mississippi-bd734b1affb3 [medium.com]

      After having my son, I asked my news director if I could stop straightening my hair. A month after giving me the green light I was pulled back into his office. I was told “My natural hair is unprofessional and the equivalent to him throwing on a baseball cap to go to the grocery store. He said “Mississippi viewers needed to see a beauty queen.” He even asked, “why my hair doesn’t lay flat.”

      https://newsone.com/2867261/rhonda-lee-weather-woman-fired-natural-hair/ [newsone.com]

      “Co-workers have had an intervention of sorts with me when I first started trying to get weather jobs,” Lee said. “They took me to lunch and told me, ‘You’re going to have to grow your hair out.'”

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:53PM (#1254253)

      Then they should take their Nigger asses home to Africa. Why don't these proud black women go home? Why do they follow Whitey around like starving stray dogs?

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by tizan on Thursday June 16 2022, @08:50PM (3 children)

    by tizan (3245) on Thursday June 16 2022, @08:50PM (#1253783)

    You obviously do not know about non-white folks and their problems in society or at work.
    I expect these kind of comments on twitter or facebook etc...

    On a nerd's place...if you have not observed or read about a phenomena avoid making random comments based on your observations in some other arena.
    So if you do not know any black person and how they get taunted or sent back home from school if their hair is not "proper" whereas white kids with mohawk cuts is considered acceptable..then your comments is baseless and we can apply Hitchen's Razor to it.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @01:21AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @01:21AM (#1253866)

      Q: And who taunts these poor black people.?
      A: 99% of them are other BLACK PEOPLE!

      Like white people give a crap if on a black person's head is an afro, flat top, or bald! It ain't white dudes doing the taunting. It's the homeys and the black bitches complaining that their bro with the Arsenio hair isn't "givin me enough bling for my suga" who are doing the taunting.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @10:38PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 17 2022, @10:38PM (#1254091)

        As a white man, I think natural hair is pretty while straightened hair looks showy and ugly. I had to grow up before I heard there was something in black society that demanded women (I think it is just women) use chemical hair straighteners.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:57PM (#1254254)

      You mean *White* society. They can take their black asses home to Africa. Access to Whites and the civilizations we build is not a human right. The world doesn't need deprecated subspecies like Negroids, except maybe in a small nature preserve in Africa.