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As chemical hair straighteners and relaxers are increasingly linked to breast and reproductive cancers, Black women must confront long-held beauty […] The post Black women weigh emerging risks of ‘creamy crack’ hair straighteners appeared first on TheGrio. ....
Cnn let reporter jacqueline howard joins us now on this. tell us about this. so many people will be listening. absolutely, brianna. as a black woman it hits close to home for me. look at the study s known for some time, researchers have known, there a connection between hair straightening chemicals and certain hormone sensitive cancers like breast cancer and ovarian cancer and the new study adds eucerin caka eucerin-of-utd rinne cancer to t the uterine cancer to the risk. look at data here. researchers found than the estimated risk for women who never reported using straighteners in the past 12 months was 1.6%. but that percentage rose to an estimated risk of 4% among women who did report frequent use. frequent use is defined as using hair straightening chemical products more than four times in the prior year. ....