Study does not prove link between household cleaning products and breast cancer
21. 07. 2010 | Cancer Research UK
Results of a new US study published today have looked at whether cleaning products are linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. They appear to show that women who say they used such products in the past are more likely to have breast cancer.
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But Cancer Research UK said that the results do not prove a link between cleaning products and breast cancer, and that the findings may have been distorted as a result of patients' existing beliefs about the health risks of chemicals.
Writing on the charity's blog, Jessica Harris, Cancer Research UK's health information officer, pointed out that no link was observed between women who didn't already believe that chemicals increased cancer risk.
Read the whole article at Cancer Research UK
Reference
- Zota AR, Aschengrau A, Rudel RA, Brody JG. Self-reported chemicals exposure, beliefs about disease causation, and risk of breast cancer in the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study: a case-control study. Environmental Health 2010; 9: 40. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-40.
Keywords: cleaning products, breast cancer
