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Chemical hair straighteners may make your morning routine faster and your hair tamer, but a new study also shows a strong link between the chemicals in them and uterine cancer.

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Deborah Copaken
Oct 21, 2022
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I don’t have time to write a long missive today, because I’m finally getting surgery on my ears1 this afternoon (woot!), but I wanted to make sure all of you saw this study linking hair straighteners to uterine cancer. The upshot? Black women have been found to have twice the incidence of uterine cancer as white women. And using hair straighteners has be…

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