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Hair dye blamed for Taiwanese breast cancer rate among hairdressers
Apr 13, 2011, 15:47 GMT
Taipei - Taiwan doctors suspect that a disproportionate number of hairdressers have developed breast cancer because of chemicals used in hair dye all the time, the Central News Agency (CNA) reported Wednesday.
The suspicion was raised by doctors at the Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital (KVGH) which treated 150 breast cancer patients last year, of which ten per cent were hairdressers.
Dr Yeh Ming-shin, head of KVGN's cancer research team, said the hairdressers were aged between 30-65, and had been in the job for years if not decades.
'We suspect they developed breast cancer due to constant contact with the chemicals in hair dyes, either sniffing it or touching it with ungloved hands,' he told CNA.
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