Re: More Cancer Scares...

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You get up awful early and start worrying about this?lol

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Hmmm...

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Breast Cancer - antiperspirant scare

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People,

The following scare mongering as traveled far and wide on the internet:

> __________________________________

> Subject: BREAST CANCER PREVENTION

> Author: Carlito D. Abanil at COSO

> Date: 10/05/99 1:51 PM

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> Deodorants(non-antiperspirants) are very hard to find but there are a few

> out there. A health seminar in the US presented findings that 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. Thank you.

>

> Team Assistant

> Development Research Group

> The World Bank

> 1818 H. St., N.W., Room MC3-321

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As a person in favor of nice healthy breasts and against nonsense, I offer

the following response from a doctor with a PhD (in Pharmacology & Tox) and

board certified in toxicology. He told me that he mentioned the

antiperspirant info to a company nurse, she immediately guessed the likely

origin.

When women go in for mammograms, they are told to use deodorants, not

antiperspirants because the aluminum can interfere with the mammogram.

now his response:

1. The armpits don't secrete toxicants, (or toxins, for that matter). The

liver is responsible for much of the metabolism of toxicants, and the

kidney is the primary organ for eliminating the metabolized toxicants.

2. The chemicals in antiperspirants aren't esoteric. Aluminum

chlorohydrate, aluminum chloride, aluminum sulfate, and aluminum zirconium

chlorohydrate are the most common. They are surface acting agents that

reduce the flow of perspiration and absorb moisture. In contrast,

deodorants employ antimicrobial agents, that while safe as used, could be

tee-ed up as much more dangerous than the antiperspirants. For example,

neomycin, which is used in deodorants, is dangerous to both hearing and the

kidneys (actual deafness and kidney damage have occurred in humans, but not

from its use in deodorants). Neomycin can be used safely, but the risks

posed by the antiperspirant compounds are insignificant by comparison. (I

recommend against eating deodorant sticks).

3. The risk factors for breast cancer are well known - high body weight,

height, early puberty (which is also related to body weight) increase

risks. By age 60, a 22 lb. increment in weight results in an

approximately 80% increase in breast cancer risk(!). High fat diets and

family history may also increase risks. In contrast, pregnancy

(particularly at an early age), lactation, and physical activity reduce

risks.

Also, women in the highest quintile of social class have a 50% higher risk

than those in the lowest class. The link to social class is likely due to:

better diets which result in earlier puberty for the rich, and having

children at later age.

The unsung issue on breast cancer is that rates (both occurrence and death)

have been declining since 1990 in the U.S. That rates have been dropping

is amazing, because body weights have been consistently increasing, and

many women are having children at later ages (both of which should have

increased rates). Clearly, there is something better about our environment

or lifestyle that is positively overwhelming the very negative effects of

higher body weights.

On top of this, it's interesting to consider the concern about synthetic

" endocrine disrupters " , particularly when interest groups scare people

about endocrine related cancers (n.b., incidence and death from the male

endocrine-related cancer, prostate, has also been declining since 1990.)

Cancer is such a frightening and complex disease, it's one open for

distortion.

I'm still deciding on what to include in PhACT talk in the fall. I don't

know if this kind of deodorant hokum would be of interest to the PhACT

members as part of the talk. ..... Dave

Sources:

Goodman & Gilman: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 7th. Ed., A.

G. Gilman, L. S. Goodman, T. W. Rall, F. Murad. (eds.). Macmillan

Publishing Company, pp. 949, 1985.

, B.E., Pike, M.C., Bernstein, L., and Ross, R.K., Breast Cancer.

In: Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention. D. Schottenfeld & J.F. Fraumeni

(ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 1022-1039, 1996.

Wingo, P.A., Ries, L.A., Rosenberg, H.M., , D.S., and , B.K.,

Cancer incidence and mortality, 1973-1995. Cancer 6: 1197-1207, 1998.

(March 15).

RR

Rutledge, M.D., F.A.C.S.

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[Guest guest]

I am not scared of cancer. But I am deathly scared of the devastating

effects of diabetes and heart disease that I know is headed my way if I don't

have this surgery. That's what scares me. PhillyJude

[Guest guest]

You know what scares me???? My expected life span of 52.8 years. I am only 27

years old- I don't want to die so early. I have a long life to live.

Terri K

MGB 10/12/00

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Hi Terri-

How'd you calculate the 52.8 year life span........I really concerned..My

birthday's today and I turn 49 tonight @ 730.

Regina in Charlotte

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Happy happy, birthday,

Regina!!!

from Trudy

Re: More Cancer Scares...

Hi Terri-

How'd you calculate the 52.8 year life span........I really concerned..My

birthday's today and I turn 49 tonight @ 730.

Regina in Charlotte

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Thank you, thank you, Trudy!!!!!!!!!

Regina in Charlotte