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COULD BEING TOO HOUSEPROUD RAISE RISK OF BREAST CANCER? !!!!

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COULD BEING TOO HOUSEPROUD RAISE RISK OF BREAST CANCER? !!!!

Postby Daanyeer » Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:43 am

By Fiona Macrae
20th July 2010

Women who are fastidious about keeping their house clean and fragrant may be unwittingly increasing their chances of developing breast cancer, a study has warned.

Those who use air fresheners and sprays and foams to remove mould from bathroom tiles the most are more likely to get the disease, research suggests.

The study is the first to link the products, regularly used in millions of homes, with the disease that claims more than 1,000 lives a month in Britain, with 45,000 new cases diagnosed every year.

The researchers asked almost 800 breast cancer patients and a group of healthy women of a similar age how often they used various cleaning products and pesticides.

They found that those who used air freshener sprays were 20 per cent more likely to have developed breast cancer. Daily use raised the odds of the disease developing by 30 per cent, the journal Environmental Health reports.

The link was even stronger with solid air fresheners, with those who used them the most being twice as likely to be diagnosed.

Mould and mildew removers also increased the chances of getting the disease but no link was found with oven or surface cleaners.

The research, by the Silent Spring Institute, in Massachusetts, an organisation that looks for links between chemicals and women's health, said that in animal studies various compounds had been linked to cancer.

These include artificial musks added to air fresheners and detergents to make them smell better.

But they cautioned that their findings could have been distorted by the patients looking for something to blame their ill health on.

This so-called recall bias could have led to them over-estimating how much they had used air fresheners and mould and mildew removers while still healthy.

Backing this up is the finding that the cancer patients were more likely than the other women to think that chemicals caused the disease.

Calling for more studies, the researchers said: 'The possibility of recall bias makes interpretation tentative.'

Dr Caitlin Palframan, of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: 'This study doesn't provide convincing evidence.

'The research relies on a woman remembering past use of cleaning products. It suggests a woman reports higher use because she thinks there is a link between those products and breast cancer.

'This could have distorted the results.

'The Breakthrough Generations Study, by following 100,000 women over 40 years, should help provide a clearer explanation of the causes of the disease.'
And Philip Malpass, of the UK Cleaning Products Industry Association, said: 'Consumers can be reassured that any substances shown to cause cancer are prohibited from use in cleaning products.

'We agree with the U.S. authors who recognise that these results could arise from selective or biased recall of cleaning product use.'



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