Can Deodorant Or Antiperspirant Cause Breast Cancer?
My daughter has been told that one of the ingredients in deodorant causes breast cancer. Is this true? If so, is there a deodorant that does not contain this ingredient? Wow! This myth won’t die. It is based on an e-mail hoax about anti-perspirants and breast cancer that has been bouncing in and out of computer mailboxes for several years now. It has even made its way as “fact” onto some less-than-reputable web sites. Apparently your daughter picked it through a word-of-mouth circuit. It appears to have morphed from “antiperspirants cause breast cancer” into “a deodorant ingredient causes breast cancer.” Antiperspirants stop the underarm from sweating while deodorants prevent underarm odor. What your daughter heard is simply a distortion of the original hoax. Neither is true. No scientific evidence links antiperspirants and deodorants with breast cancer. A closer look at the claims in this myth reveals it to be full of holes. Essentially, the hoax contends that antiperspirants stop the
