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Category: Cancer

Do hair dyes and relaxers raise health risks for women of color?
  • Cancer

Do hair dyes and relaxers raise health risks for women of color?

  • Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020
  • by Caitlin Dow

Women of color use more beauty products than white women. And some contain harmful chemicals. For example, some skin-lightening creams may contain mercury, which can damage the nervous system and…

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Can eating more plants cut your risk of cancer?
  • Cancer

Can eating more plants cut your risk of cancer?

  • Posted on August 11, 2020August 11, 2020
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

“Cancer is complicated because each cancer has a different set of risk factors acting at different ages,” cautions Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan…

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Should you be concerned about the chemicals in cosmetics?
  • Cancer

Should you be concerned about the chemicals in cosmetics?

  • Posted on July 23, 2020July 23, 2020
  • by Caitlin Dow

“Consumers are often surprised to learn that most of the chemicals used in everyday cosmetics are not thoroughly tested for safety,” says Robin Dodson, a scientist at Silent Spring Institute.…

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Are sunless tanners safe?
  • Cancer

Are sunless tanners safe?

  • Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
  • by Caitlin Dow

Can tanning lotions give you a bronze glow without boosting your risk of skin cancer and wrinkles? The active ingredient in most sunless tanners is dihydroxyacetone (DHA). It makes you…

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Do antiperspirants cause cancer?
  • Cancer

Do antiperspirants cause cancer?

  • Posted on July 2, 2020
  • by Caitlin Dow

“You wouldn’t swallow a spoonful of toxic cosmetic ingredients,” wrote Time.com in 2016. “But in some ways, smearing them under your arms in the form of deodorant or antiperspirant may…

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Why liver cancer rates are rising more rapidly than those of any other cancer
  • Cancer

Why liver cancer rates are rising more rapidly than those of any other cancer

  • Posted on May 10, 2019May 23, 2019
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

Since 1980, the U.S. incidence of liver cancer has tripled and the death rate has doubled. “Excess weight, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and diabetes are greatly contributing to higher rates…

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What you can do to reduce your risk of colorectal cancer
  • Cancer

What you can do to reduce your risk of colorectal cancer

  • Posted on April 22, 2019
  • by Caitlin Dow

It’s a success story. The death rate from colorectal cancer in 2016 was less than half of what it was in 1970. One troubling sign: while colorectal cancer is dropping in…

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What happens to cancer patients who choose “alternative” treatments?
  • Cancer

What happens to cancer patients who choose “alternative” treatments?

  • Posted on August 22, 2018August 21, 2018
  • by Lindsay Moyer

Researchers identified roughly 280 people who chose “alternative”—that is, unproven—treatments for several non-metastatic cancers. After five years, patients who chose alternative treatments were six times more likely to die of…

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Why extra weight—not just obesity—matters
  • Cancer

Why extra weight—not just obesity—matters

  • Posted on July 16, 2018April 29, 2019
  • by Caitlin Dow

“American adults just keep getting fatter,” proclaimed the New York Times headline on March 23rd. “New data shows that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015 and 2016,…

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