Re: anyone know if cosmotologist are more prone to thyroid cancer

[Guest guest]

There are a lot of potentially toxic chemicals in beauty parlors, & I believe that a higher toxic burden makes you more prone to cancer. (It is a crime what people are allowed to put in products that will be absorbed by our skin!) So I would think there is an increased risk for people in that environment.Anne On Nov 30, 2010, at 3:33 PM, theresa sullivan wrote: My daughter in law has 3 other people she works with and herself who have developed thyroid cancer. They all work in a beauty salon as cosmotologist. my daughetr in law has had a reoccurance of her cancer and has taken RAI a second time and I am so concerned for her. This can not be a coincidence. Thanks, Theresa

[Guest guest]

Theresa,

My daughter in law used to work a lot in a beauty salon, and I do

worry about her health. This page

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/08/06/aje.kwq190.abstracthttp://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/08/06/aje.kwq190.abstract

talks about a "modest" rise in thyroid cancer, but it notes that the

women in the study were quite young and there is a question as to

what will happen will increased age.

W.

My daughter in law has 3 other people she

works with and herself who have developed

thyroid cancer. They all work in a beauty salon

as cosmotologist. my daughetr in law has had a

reoccurance of her cancer and has taken RAI a

second time and I am so concerned for her. This

can not be a coincidence.

Thanks,

Theresa

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[Guest guest]

Bromine is in permanent wave solutions, hair dyes, and permanent wave

neutralizers: See http://breastcancerchoices.org/bromidedominancetheory.html

And read what Dr. Brownstein says about the danger of bromine to the thyroid in

his Nov. 25, 2010 blog entry:

http://drdavidbrownstein.blogspot.com/

Bromine could be one of the possible toxic chemicals in a beauty parlor.

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> > My daughter in law has 3 other people she works with and herself

> > who have developed thyroid cancer. They all work in a beauty salon

> > as cosmotologist. my daughetr in law has had a reoccurance of her

> > cancer and has taken RAI a second time and I am so concerned for

> > her. This can not be a coincidence.

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Theresa

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I found this study which has keywords suggesting a tie to thyroid cancer.

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/172/6/691.short?rss=1

Cancer Incidence in Female Cosmetologists and Manicurists in California, 1988–2005

Thu Quach*,

Phuong An Doan-Billing,

Layefsky,

,

Kim Dung Nguyen,

Okahara,

Alisha Ngoc Tran,

Von Behren and

Peggy Reynolds

*Correspondence to Dr. Thu Quach, 2001 Center Street, Suite 700, Berkeley, CA 94704 (e-mail: thu.quach@...).

Received April 1, 2010.

Accepted May 21, 2010.

Abstract

Health concerns have been pronounced for cosmetologists and manicurists, who are exposed daily to cosmetic products containing known or suspected human carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. In this retrospective cohort study, the authors used probabilistic record linkage between California's statewide cosmetology licensee and cancer surveillance files to identify newly diagnosed invasive cancers among female workforce members during 1988–2005. Rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals for cancer among workforce members compared with the general female population in California were estimated via Poisson regression. For comparison, site-specific proportional incidence ratios were computed. The authors identified 9,044 cancer cases in a cohort of 325,228 licensees. Rate ratios for all sites combined suggested lower incidence among both cosmetologists (rate ratio = 0.84, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.82, 0.86) and manicurists (rate ratio = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.84, 0.90). Proportional incidence ratios were modestly elevated for thyroid cancer among all licensees (proportional incidence ratio = 1.13, 95% CI: 1.04, 1.23) and for lung cancer among manicurists (proportional incidence ratio = 1.21, 95% CI: 1.07, 1.36). Although there did not appear to be a cancer excess, these findings may be artifactually influenced by limitations in demographic information available from the licensee files. Additionally, the relatively young ages of cohort members and demographic shifts in the industry composition in recent years suggest a need for further follow-up.

Key words

cohort studies

cosmetics

environment and public health

incidence

lung neoplasms

occupational exposure

thyroid neoplasms

anyone know if cosmotologist are more prone to thyroid cancer

My daughter in law has 3 other people she works with and herself who have developed thyroid cancer. They all work in a beauty salon as cosmotologist. my daughetr in law has had a reoccurance of her cancer and has taken RAI a second time and I am so concerned for her. This can not be a coincidence.

Thanks,

Theresa

[Guest guest]

it is a job that get much xeno estrogenes into your body.they are very bad and sit in all the cosmetica except few companies   like weleda

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:27 AM, ladybugsandbees <ladybugsandbees@...> wrote:

 

I found this study which has keywords suggesting a tie to thyroid cancer.

 

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/172/6/691.short?rss=1

Cancer Incidence in Female Cosmetologists and Manicurists in California, 1988–2005

Thu Quach*,

Phuong An Doan-Billing,

Layefsky,

,

Kim Dung Nguyen,

Okahara,

Alisha Ngoc Tran,

Von Behren and

Peggy Reynolds

*Correspondence to Dr. Thu Quach, 2001 Center Street, Suite 700, Berkeley, CA 94704 (e-mail: thu.quach@...).

Received April 1, 2010.

Accepted May 21, 2010.

Abstract

Health concerns have been pronounced for cosmetologists and manicurists, who are exposed daily to cosmetic products containing known or suspected human carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. In this retrospective cohort study, the authors used probabilistic record linkage between California's statewide cosmetology licensee and cancer surveillance files to identify newly diagnosed invasive cancers among female workforce members during 1988–2005. Rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals for cancer among workforce members compared with the general female population in California were estimated via Poisson regression. For comparison, site-specific proportional incidence ratios were computed. The authors identified 9,044 cancer cases in a cohort of 325,228 licensees. Rate ratios for all sites combined suggested lower incidence among both cosmetologists (rate ratio = 0.84, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.82, 0.86) and manicurists (rate ratio = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.84, 0.90). Proportional incidence ratios were modestly elevated for thyroid cancer among all licensees (proportional incidence ratio = 1.13, 95% CI: 1.04, 1.23) and for lung cancer among manicurists (proportional incidence ratio = 1.21, 95% CI: 1.07, 1.36). Although there did not appear to be a cancer excess, these findings may be artifactually influenced by limitations in demographic information available from the licensee files. Additionally, the relatively young ages of cohort members and demographic shifts in the industry composition in recent years suggest a need for further follow-up.

Key words

cohort studies

cosmetics

environment and public health

incidence

lung neoplasms

occupational exposure

thyroid neoplasms

anyone know if cosmotologist are more prone to thyroid cancer

 

My daughter in law has 3 other people she works with and herself who have developed thyroid cancer. They all work in a beauty salon as cosmotologist. my daughetr in law has had a reoccurance of her cancer and has taken RAI a second time and I am so concerned for her. This can not be a coincidence.

 

Thanks,

Theresa