fungirlz

We look forward to you getting some free time do we can get into this more with FACTS.

Does anyone have any information regarding this claim?

tangirl

This is what I found at http://www.snopes2.com/

Claim: Anti-perspirants have been identified as the leading cause of breast cancer.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1999]

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BREAST CANCER PREVENTION
Not just for women -- men don't forget to tell mom, cousins, etc. Deodorants (non-antiperspirants) are very hard to find but there are a few out there.

I just got information from a health seminar that I would like to share.

The leading cause of breast cancer is the use of anti-perspirant.

What? Yes ANTI-PERSPIRANT. Most of the products out there are an anti-perspirant/deodorant combination so go home and check your labels.

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.

PLEASE pass this along to anyone you care about. Breast Cancer is becoming frighteningly common. This awareness may save lives. If you are skeptical about these findings, I urge you to do some research for yourself. You will arrive at the same conclusions, I assure you.
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Origins: Breast cancer is scary stuff. It's the second most common type of cancer (after skin cancer) among women, and it's also the second most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer) among women. According to the American Cancer Society, this year about 175,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer and about 43,300 deaths from breast cancer will occur among women in the USA.

Those numbers are enough to scare anyone, especially since we still don't know what causes breast cancer. Researchers have identified lots of risk factors (such as age, diet, cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, and family history), but the specific causes of breast cancer remain elusive. So when someone purports to have found a cause (maybe even the cause) of breast cancer, naturally we take note of it. Unfortunately, the message above doesn't identify one of those causes.

The years since World War II have seen a tremendous increase in the incidence of breast cancer, so efforts on identifying its causes often focus on changes in our society that have occurred since then, such as the increased use of pesticides, the advent of birth control pills, changes in diet, and different styles and materials in women's clothing. It's compelling to think that anti-perspirants might be one of these causes: their use (in their current formulation) is a recent phenomenon, and the explanation given for how they might cause breast cancer seems to make sense (just as Sydney Ross Singer's 1995 book Dressed to Kill theorized that the wearing of tight-fitting bras leads to a concentration of carcinogenic compounds in the breasts and lymphatic system). However, as Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, the "great tragedy of science" is "a beautiful hypothesis slain by an ugly fact." In this case it's both ugly facts and a lack of attractive ones that drive a stake through the heart of the hypothesis offered above.

First off, there is no medical research that postulates a link between breast cancer and anti-perspirant use, much less any studies that demonstrate a link between the two. Moreover, the claims that "nicks in the skin . . . give the [anti-perspirant] chemicals entrance into the body from the armpit area" and that anti-perspirants inhibit "the body from purging toxins from below the armpits" don't even make sense from a physiological standpoint. Any chemicals that might enter the circulatory system aren't necessarily going to end up stored in breast tissue or the lymph nodes, any more than chocolates will make your face (rather than some other part of your body) fat because you take them into your system through your mouth. As well, the primary purpose of perspiration is as a cooling mechanism: your liver and your kidneys play a far more important role in eliminating substances from your system, and far more "toxins" are purged through urination than through perspiration. (We also perspire from places other than our armpits, such as behind the knees and around the pubic area. Any "toxins" that couldn't get out through the armpits wouldn't simply settle down in the breasts because they found the door closed when they reached the armpits, so to speak.)

fungirlz

First off, there is no medical research that postulates a link between breast cancer and anti-perspirant use, much less any studies that demonstrate a link between the two.


Thank-you very much Tan girl for this info..
Keep us informed..

Love, Chris

tangirl

I'm glad to be of assistance. If you are ever told anything that you just cannot or don't want to believe, check out www.snopes.com

BooBop

Whew, glad to hear that. My staff and I are starting to really smell rank......