Color of Change is looking on retailers to drag and audit their Black hair product assortments following an October study by The National Institutes of Health that found using chemical hair straighteners — or relaxers, which is most prevalent amongst Black women — is related to an increased risk of uterine cancer.
The study, which included data from 33,497 U.S. women ages 34 to 74, found that ladies who reported frequent use of hair-straightening products (defined as over 4 times within the previous yr), were greater than twice as prone to develop uterine cancer than their counterparts.
The study notes that while uterine cancer only accounts for roughly 3 percent of all cancer cases and is thus considered “relatively rare,”...
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