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1. karim7+un[view] [source] 2023-07-23 18:42:45
>>Impres+(OP)
This one caught my attention.

In 2015 my (now ex) girlfriend was diagnosed with TNBC. I obviously researched the hell out of it to gain as much of an understanding as I possibly could as a non-medical professional as I'm sure anyone would, and most of my reading suggested that it was mostly African American women and youngish white ladies who tend to get this.

As far as I know, she had used permanent die at least once in her early twenties. Thankfully less than a year later and after chemo and surgery, she fully recovered.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783321/

Edit: added space after comma, fixed grammo

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2. manmal+ty[view] [source] 2023-07-23 19:44:31
>>karim7+un
Sorry to hear this. But are you implying one single use of hair dye could have caused her cancer?
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3. Spooky+pb1[view] [source] 2023-07-24 00:10:06
>>manmal+ty
Cancer is a numbers game. Unlike say, blackjack, you only know about certain risk factors. Many are unknown.

With skin cancer, getting a sunburn every two years triples your risk of developing melanoma. With the fairest skin types, even a single severe burn can increase risk if melanoma. Other skin cancers tend to result from constant exposure over time.

I don’t know much about this scenario with hair product. But if you have some other risk factors, it’s not unreasonable that a single exposure may result in a bad outcome.

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