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As chemical hair straighteners and relaxers are increasingly linked to breast and reproductive cancers, Black women must confront long-held beauty […] The post Black women weigh emerging risks of ‘creamy crack’ hair straighteners appeared first on TheGrio.
Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment is associated with accelerated biological aging.
As chemical hair straighteners are increasingly linked to breast and reproductive cancers, Black women confront long-held beauty standards.
Deanna Denham Hughes was stunned when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year. She was only 32. She had no family history of cancer, and tests found no genetic link. Hughes wondered why she, an otherwise healthy Black mother of two, would develop a malignancy known as a "silent killer."
Social and economic pressures have long compelled Black girls and women to straighten their hair. But mounting evidence shows chemical straighteners — products with little regulatory oversight — may pose cancer and other health risks.