Antiperspirants do increase risk of breast cancer

Antiperspirant use is a risk factor for breast cancer, according to scientists. We recently learned that the Swiss government was considering banning the use of aluminium salts in antiperspirants. In making up their mind they would do well to heed the results of an epidemiological study just published in EBioMedicine which show that the use […]

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Swiss move to ban aluminium in antiperspirants

The Swiss are worried about the role that antiperspirants, and specifically aluminium salts in antiperspirants, may play in breast cancer, and they have taken steps to do something about it. On Tuesday the 5th of May 2017 their National Council (Conseil National) voted by 126 to 58 to approve a bill (postulat) that the Federal […]

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