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| Makeup being given free to thousands of breast cancer patients could contain chemicals that are particularly harmful to them, a grassroots group charges. But the American Cancer Society maintains that "the majority" of the ingredients have been found to be safe. Alexandra Thompson |
by Jacqueline Cutler, New York Daily News,
6 October 2015
The very group charged with helping cancer patients could be hurting them.
The American Cancer Society is distributing makeup kits, intended to help women feel better about themselves as they lose their eyelashes and eyebrows.
Yet some of the makeup in these kits could be toxic, charges Breast Cancer Action, a 60,000-strong advocacy group.
Each side is putting its best face forward, and maintains there is nothing to conceal.
“One of the chemicals we found, metyhlparaben, has been found in the lab to interfere with Tamoxifen, the most common breast cancer treatment,” says Karuna Jaggar, Breast Cancer Action’s executive director.
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The very group charged with helping cancer patients could be hurting them.
The American Cancer Society is distributing makeup kits, intended to help women feel better about themselves as they lose their eyelashes and eyebrows.
Yet some of the makeup in these kits could be toxic, charges Breast Cancer Action, a 60,000-strong advocacy group.
Each side is putting its best face forward, and maintains there is nothing to conceal.
“One of the chemicals we found, metyhlparaben, has been found in the lab to interfere with Tamoxifen, the most common breast cancer treatment,” says Karuna Jaggar, Breast Cancer Action’s executive director.