Household Cleaning Products Increases Breast Cancer Risk

Be fair, attentive, and customers
will return.

A new study pointed out that using
house-hold cleaning products increases
breast cancer.

Brody and her co-researchers conducted
telephone interviews with 787 women who
had been diagnosed with breast cancer,
and 721 women who didn't have breast cancer.
"We asked women about past use of cleaning
products in the past year, their typical
use," Brody explained.

Air fresheners and mold/mildew controlling
products were connected to increasing breast
cancer, Julia Brody, PhD, executive director
of the Silent Spring Institute, Newton
Massachusetts. She led the study.

"We found links to breast cancer for combined
cleaning products used, many different products
taken together, and air fresheners and mold and
mildew control products," she continued.

"For combined cleaning product use, the risk
is about twice as high for breast cancer for
women who said they used the most compared to
women who said they used the least."

Listing exactly how much of exposure could raise
risk is difficult to say, she admitted.

"This is a first look and there are cautions
about interpreting it," Brody said.

The article is published in the journal
Environmental health.