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Can coloring your hair cause cancer? (Breast Check).

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| July 01, 2003 | Califano, Julia | COPYRIGHT 2003 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You may have heard that dyeing your hair increases your risk of breast cancer, and in fact, some doctors have expressed concerns that the chemicals in hair color might be linked to the disease. But when Tongzhang Zheng, head of Yale University's Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and his colleagues compared the hair-dyeing habits of 608 women who had been diagnosed with ...

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