I have a question about deodorant?

so my science teacher said that when females shave and apply deodorant, it slowly affects your breast? because the chemicals in the deodorant goes through the armpits and into your breast and when you grow older you will start to have bumps on your brest and it will eventually lead to breast cancer. he said he knew a lot of people that did that and researches shown that it's a fact. but it's so unbelievable, you know? so what are females going to do? not put deodorant on? does this apply to males also? is this even true? because my science teacher tells us a lot of things that no one ever knew before.

I have a question about deodorant?
Never heard of it. Probably good to reduce aluminum exposure for other reasons, though.
Reply:HERE'S THE DEAL:





I do what i can to limit the toxins entering my body. You can't avoid it all- but you do have control over some things. This is one of them :) I use natural deodorants- I specifically have come to really like Tom's of Maine- it is fresh smelling and not perfumed smelling. I don't know for sure if aluminum in your body causes cancer- but I know aluminum does not belong in your body so it cannot be good. So get a natural deodorant you like and never worry about it again! :)
Reply:It's possible, but highly unlikely. It's like the story that cell phones can cause cancer. Well, they can, but the light has to be on all the time when you're on your phone and you have to be on it all day every day. Or the stories that dry cleaning employees can get cancer from the Carbon TetraChlorine that they use. Well, you can, but you'd have to have a gallon of it dumped on your head every day.
Reply:Read this link http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2005/40...


Don´t you believe in FDA? ..I live in South America and this rumor appear once in a while too. ..
Reply:im scared now like how can we not wear deodorant i wonder if its true to but i never heard anything like this before
Reply:i've heard of this too, except my version included a younger age group. i heard this mainly applies to children who apply deordorant too soon and their skin is vulnerable. i don't have a definite answer though, sorry.
Reply:Aluminum! Use deodorant without it. In addition try to find one without too many other synthetics or chemicals.





The usual dopes will try and say that's there is no proof, yada yada yada. Well there is, they are now linking aluminum to all kinds of problems.





Heavy metals should not be in your body!





These are the same dopes that said:





Lead is safe -Wrong!


Mercury is safe - Wrong!





Even silver and gold in your body is not safe, silver poisoning will actually turn your skin a blue/Grey color.





Nickel is also harmful, it accumulates in your pancreas.





Now some idiots want to tell you its safe to absorb aluminum!





If some dolt shows you a study about the safety of it, you should find out who paid for the study, often it a company that uses aluminum in its products.





Now we don't know all the specific problems it can cause. But anybody that has half a brain and a little knowledge about metal toxicity knows that aluminum does not belong in your body.
Reply:Well, everyone uses deo so this should apply to everyone.





What about the guys shaving their face and putting after-shave on?





I'm uncomfortable with the fact he's teaching this to his classes - it's implanting a fear factor, which, at your age, is something you don't need hanging over your head.
Reply:I don't know but know Im scaird and I think Im either going to let my hair grow or not wear deoderant.....ewww....nvm
Reply:i never heard that, but i heard the aluminum can cause Alzheimer's
Reply:Study disproves e-mail hoax linking antiperspirants, cancer


WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study, prompted by an urban myth spread on the Internet, shows there is no evidence that antiperspirants or deodorants can cause breast cancer.


The study, appearing this week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, examined the personal hygiene habits of 813 women with breast cancer and 793 women without the disease and found no link between cancer and body odor control cosmetics.





"Antiperspirant and deodorant use did not differ whether or not a participant (in the study) had breast cancer," said Dana K. Mirick, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. This indicates, she said, that use of the personal products does not cause the disease.





Mirick, first author of the study, said that the data was collected starting in 1992 as part of a larger study testing if other common exposures might be factors in breast cancer.





"About that time, these rumors (about antiperspirants and cancer) started to pop up on the Internet," said Mirick. "So we threw in these additional questions."





Other results from the large study were published earlier, but nothing was done about the antiperspirant question until Mirick and her co-authors realized that women were still concerned about the issue, even 10 years after it was first raised on the Internet. The American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute were so concerned that both put out notices on the Internet stating there was no evidence linking the personal products with cancer.





"On the main Fred Hutchinsonline they still occasionally get phone calls from women who are concerned about this," said Mirick. "Even though no researchers believed there was a connection, there were no published studies on it."





Since they had the data, she and her co-authors decided to write up a paper and, perhaps, lay to rest a persistent myth.





"It is important for people to have correct information ... that can eliminate fear about a deadly disease from an exposure that is quite common," said Mirick. "These myths induced fear because this is a product that almost everybody uses."





Mirick said the original rumor started more than 10 years ago, probably from a widely distributed, anonymous e-mail.





She looked for a Web site that carried the myth, but found nothing.





"I don't know if there was ever a Web site, or if it just came from a round robin e-mail," said Mirick. "But I do know the question was raised before 1992. ... People were concerned."
Reply:Oh my! I have never heard of this before!!!!
Reply:It's the aluminium content that your teacher was referring to. You can get them without it.



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