Hector Corvera was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2023. He recounted an unsettling moment with his urologist. “He says, what do you do for a living? And I said, “I’m a hairdresser,” Corvera said the doctor answered, “Hmm, that explains it.”
“Hair dyes are full of carcinogens,” said Anne McTiernan, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. “For hairdressers, it’s really clear that the occupation is problematic.” A hairdresser’s exposure could be through both inhalation and through the skin, she said. It’s unclear whether ordinary latex gloves are protective.
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