Breast screening and deodorant

cherryblossomzel

CRUK is not a business, it's a charity that funds cancer research. If their scientists had any evidence that something as simple as not using deodorant will reduce the incidence of cancer, they would be first to recommend we don't use it anymore.


Your first reference concludes that further case-controlled investigation is needed, and is written by an author who has written ONE other paper on the topic in the last decade. Hardly an expert. In that particular paper, the "study" was single-armed (i.e. no control group) and relied on cancer patients remembering when they started shaving and using antiperspirant. This study does it properly and finds no link http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/94/20/1578.full


Your second reference doesn't even pretend to ask the question of whether certain chemicals (not aluminium by the way, which is what you're blaming here) causes cancer, it merely discusses their incidence in the body. It is a very small pilot study, which might warrant further investigation, but proves nothing by itself.


I can find other studies that show no link, but as fairy lights say, this is not the point of the thread (sorry OP!). I do however stand by my original statement: hysterical internet-babble (what exactly is a "concentrated study"? I've never come across the term).


Edit: I was typing at the same time as ben_m_g. sorry for any duplication!

nearlyrich

I went a couple of months ago and my letter said not to use any, fortunately it wasn't a warm day, poor screeners must have some proper smelly pits to contend with.

j.e.j.

btw ALL charities are businesses..

mickaveli2001

j.e.j. wrote: »

btw ALL charities are businesses..

All mainstream ones certainly are. I'm not condemning all charities, but all the major ones have accountants and directors on huge salaries. I appreciate that people need to be paid to perform certain aspects of a larger UK-wide charity, but certainly not on the level of 6 figure sums.


To the other posters, these are just 2 small studies. There are a wealth of other studies, not just in the Western world, but also in places like India, Germany, New Zealand, China etc. I unfortunately don't have the time to post them all

elljay

...................and the result is? Yep clear!!! thrilled to bits as so many people around me seem to be living with breast cancer at the moment, I almost expected a recall! Actually feel a bit guilty, but incredibly grateful.

Sorry but I will continue to use deodorant out of consideration for those around me in this warm weather.

mickaveli2001

elljay wrote: »

...................and the result is? Yep clear!!! thrilled to bits as so many people around me seem to be living with breast cancer at the moment, I almost expected a recall! Actually feel a bit guilty, but incredibly grateful.

Sorry but I will continue to use deodorant out of consideration for those around me in this warm weather.

Sorry but I will continue to use <ALUMINIUM AND ALCOHOL FREE> deodorant out of consideration for those around me in this warm weather.


Fixed it for you

elljay

mickaveli2001 wrote: »

Sorry but I will continue to use <ALUMINIUM AND ALCOHOL FREE> deodorant out of consideration for those around me in this warm weather.
Fixed it for you

Sorry but I will continue to use <MORRISON'S CHEAPO ROLL ON, 30p> deodorant out of consideration for those around me in this warm weather.

Fixed it for me!!

We all have to make out own decisions about the level of risk we're prepared to accept in our lives, if we worried about everything that's ever been researched we'd never do anything, not even breathe!