By AFRO Staff A new study published in the July edition of Carcinogenesis posits a plausible link between the heavy use of lye-based hair relaxers or straighteners and the incidence of cancer among African-American women. The Boston University researchers analyzed data from the school’s Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS), a compendium of health information from 59,000 […]
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