By India Espy-Jones ·Updated June 3, 2024
In 2022, the NIH published a study stating the links between uterine cancer and hair relaxer use. Over 33,000 women participated in the Sister Study with 378 diagnosed with cancer over the course of 11 years. Apart from the study, a hairstylist who had been applying relaxers to her clients’ hair for the past 30 years was also diagnosed. “My first salon opened in 1994,”
