May anti-perspirant deodorant be a main cause for breast cancer?

60>Some friends have been telling me that I'm not supposed to be using it, because I'm high risk of having breast cancer ,my mom died of it.
Reply:Yes. Some reports say that anti=perspirant deodorant is one of the cause for breast cancer. Read -





Breast Cancer Prevention - Something to Think About





One of the many causes of breast cancer is the use of anti-perspirant. Deodorant is fine, anti-perspirant is not. Here's why: The human body has a few areas that it uses to purge toxins; behind the knees, behind the ears, groin area, and armpits. The toxins are purged in the form of perspiration. Anti-perspirant, as the name clearly indicates, prevents you from perspiring, thereby inhibiting the body from purging toxins from below the armpits. These toxins do not just magically disappear. Instead, the body deposits them in the lymph nodes below the arms since it cannot sweat them out. This causes a high concentration of toxins and leads to cell mutations: a.k.a. CANCER. Nearly all breast cancer tumors occur in the upper outside quadrant of the breast area. This is precisely where the lymph nodes are located.





Additionally, men are less likely (but not completely exempt) to develop breast cancer prompted by anti-perspirant usage because most of the anti-perspirant product is caught in their hair and is not directly applied to the skin. Women who apply anti-perspirant right after shaving increase the risk further because shaving causes almost imperceptible nicks in the skin which give the chemicals entrance into the body from the armpit area. -
Reply:I asked my oncologist this question and he said it was the most stupid story he has ever heard.....
Reply:Snopes.com says that the research is inconclusive, but I've heard many people say that deodorant does not cause breast cancer. Even if there is a link, deodorant is NOT the main cause of breast cancer.
Reply:It's a load of rubbish.


Your friends need to grow a brain. That hoax has been around since the late '90's. Sheesh.


http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/ant...


http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/h...


http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/in...


http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/02...





From The American Cancer Society


"........Internet e-mail rumors have suggested that underarm antiperspirants can cause breast cancer. There is very little evidence to support this idea. Also, there is no evidence to support the idea that underwire bras cause breast cancer..."





http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/conten...
Reply:Yes. Is a factor. There are mineral deodorants you can use that are natural. I use deodorant crystal spray mist. You can pick it up at walmart. It is natural with no harmful chemicals.
Reply:i think so. if aluminum causes cancer and aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly (antiperspirant) is in your deordorant, yeah.


i mean, think about it, HEAT opens your pores, like from a shower or from sweating and you put deodorant on after the shower. then if you sweat later. i mean, its just seeping into your armpits which pretty much connect to the glands in your breasts.





ive always thought so. kinda like "duuuhhh!!"


GO ORGANIC
Reply:That has been proven over and over again to be an urban myth. There is absolutey no link whatsoever between antipersperants and breast cancer.


Just get checked regularly (since your mom had it) and don't worry about deoderants.
Reply:"I don't think there are any data that have shown a link. I think the concerns with some of the deodorants as well as other personal care products has been the estrogen products we mentioned earlier, but the animal data are not clear and as far as I'm aware, there are no epidemiological data to support a causal role".-d statement wz frm a Doctor


Background and study design: The rumor that using underarm deodorant or antiperspirant can cause breast cancer has circulated for years on the Internet. Yet there has never been any scientific basis for such a claim.





Still, it's easy to understand why some women worry that there might be a link between underarm hygiene products and breast cancer: The underarm is so close to the breast, and when you use deodorant or antiperspirant you might worry about chemicals getting into your body through the skin, and making their way to the breast. Or you might worry about sweat building up inside and somehow harming the lymph nodes in the breast area.





Many women are also concerned that antiperspirants might contain cancer-causing substances that enter the body through small nicks or scrapes in the armpit that occur while shaving.





Recently, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle conducted a scientific study on the possible link between breast cancer and deodorant or antiperspirant use. They studied more than 1,600 women with and without breast cancer:





810 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and


793 women who were not affected by the disease.


All of the women were between the ages of 20 and 74, and all of them lived in western Washington State.





The researchers conducted in-person interviews with all the women.





These are some of the questions the women answered:





Have you ever used underarm antiperspirant on a regular basis?


Have you ever used underarm antiperspirant EXCLUSIVELY on a regular basis (versus deodorant or talc-based products)?


Have you regularly shaved under your arms one hour or less before or after using antiperspirant?


Researchers asked the women the same questions about deodorants.





Results and conclusions: The researchers found out that:





Most of the women had regularly used antiperspirant or deodorant at some point in their lives.


More than 90% of the women in both groups had regularly used some form of underarm hair removal鈥攎ost commonly shaving with a blade razor.


More than a third of the women in both groups had applied antiperspirant or deodorant within one hour of shaving.


When they compared the two groups in the study, the researchers found NO evidence of an increased risk of breast cancer linked to any of the following:





using antiperspirant or deodorant


using antiperspirant or deodorant and shaving with a blade razor


using antiperspirant or deodorant within one hour of shaving with a blade razor


Because these findings are based on data collected from a large number of women, the researchers believe their conclusions are reliable. They hope that by publishing these results they can help ease the concern many women have had about using these products.





Take-home message: Hopefully, this study will help to calm women's fears about antiperspirant and deodorant use and breast cancer.





In addition to this research, there are also physiological explanations for why there is no real connection between deodorant and antiperspirant use and breast cancer. For a detailed discussion of this issue, read our section on why Antiperspirants Do NOT Cause Breast Cancer.
Reply:Anti perspirant contains aluminum which is not good for you because when you put it on the body absorbs it. I haven't heard anything about it being related to breast cancer, but I have heard about it being linked to Alzheimer's disease.