Does hair dye use really increase the risk of prostate cancer?

Recently, Shu-Yu Tai et al. reported that personal hair dye use increased risk of prostate cancer with a dose-response effect. Although hair dyes were identified as carcinogenic in animals and increased risk of some cancers among hairdressers, the existing epidemiological data did not support that p...

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Autor principal: Jiann, Bang-Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29115940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3656-z
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description Recently, Shu-Yu Tai et al. reported that personal hair dye use increased risk of prostate cancer with a dose-response effect. Although hair dyes were identified as carcinogenic in animals and increased risk of some cancers among hairdressers, the existing epidemiological data did not support that personal hair dye use increased risk of cancers, even for bladder cancer. Given that Tai et al.’s report of a potential hazard of personal hair dye use on risk of prostate cancer was particular, the methodology of the study was scrutinized and some flaws were found including the issue of external validity.
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spelling pubmed-56787752017-11-17 Does hair dye use really increase the risk of prostate cancer? Jiann, Bang-Ping BMC Cancer Correspondence Recently, Shu-Yu Tai et al. reported that personal hair dye use increased risk of prostate cancer with a dose-response effect. Although hair dyes were identified as carcinogenic in animals and increased risk of some cancers among hairdressers, the existing epidemiological data did not support that personal hair dye use increased risk of cancers, even for bladder cancer. Given that Tai et al.’s report of a potential hazard of personal hair dye use on risk of prostate cancer was particular, the methodology of the study was scrutinized and some flaws were found including the issue of external validity. BioMed Central 2017-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5678775/ /pubmed/29115940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3656-z Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Does hair dye use really increase the risk of prostate cancer?
title_fullStr Does hair dye use really increase the risk of prostate cancer?
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title_short Does hair dye use really increase the risk of prostate cancer?
title_sort does hair dye use really increase the risk of prostate cancer?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678775/
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