Study proves my 80-year-old grandfather correct: Deodorant may promote breast cancer

Hold on a minute, I seem to recall reading about this study a few weeks ago. And I believe the study ALSO mentioned that parabens were ALSO found in the breast cancer tissue of people who did NOT use deodorant. Something this author failed to mention. I hate one sided reporting. Give me ALL the facts please and let me make an educated decision based on all of the facts.

At what point do you just say whatever? You can't stop living. in the words of the singer Joe Jackson: Everything gives you cancer. are you going to stop breathing? the air we breathe no matter where you are is full of cancer causing agents. we can't breathe, we can't eat, we can't drink the water or any other liquid due to pollution. so much for better living via chemistry.

I have to stop reading these articles.

A short time ago I read that it was aluminum in deodorant that was the big scary thing. Now it's parabens. I also read that there is no proof that deodorant has anything to do with breast cancer. If deodorant were the culprit, men's breast cancer would be more prevalent as well, wouldn't it? Every man I know uses deodorant, and it's not the fancy herbal kind.

Then how do you explain the billions of us that have used deodorant all our lives and have not developed breast cancer? Give me a break...I choose not to stink...

Better to use a Crystal Stick deodorant found at health food stores. All natural, safe, NO chemicals and it completely ends body odor! One stick lasts about a year, too. Amazing!

I bet you'd find paraben in a biopsy 99% of healthy women's breasts, too. You'd also find mammary glands, blood, skin, fat, lactation ducts and many other things in the breasts of both cancer patients and healthy women. Just because its there doesn't prove that it causes cancer.

My underarm pores got clogged and would swell. Dr. told me to stop using deodorant.. haven't used it in about 20 years. He said, if you shower everyday and don't sweat heavily, you shouldn't need deodorant at all. I do and don't so why waste the money.

Could these products come from our food and candy, or the plastic bags and cans we buy our food in?

i grew up in the 70's and this is the dumbest thing i have ever heard of....people live and quite worrying about dying....jeeshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...oh so lets just lock outselves in the house so we cant be shot...or car jacked or mugged or whatever.....grow t f ...uppppppppppppppppp

Don't forget the parabens in makeup that many women use every day.

This particular research project may or may not have included the variable of shaving the axillary area. Although paraben may be associated somewhat with increased risk of breast cancer, it's the combination of BOTH shaving and using deordorants with parabens that is most significantly associated with increased incidence of breast cancer morbidity rates. Over a decade ago, several widows of women who died from breast cancer attempted an awareness campaign out of one of their garages about this association of shaving and deororants but were savaged by the health care industrial machine as nuts.

If you actually eat very healthy your sweat will not smell. That includes eating hardly if any sugar and not too much dairy and all those junk foods. Also if you must use deodorant, use one without aluminum. It sinks into your skin and travels in the bloodstream. It can lodge in your brain. Many people that had Alzheimer's had aluminum deposits in their brains.

Hmmm, just using shower powder, like my dad does, doesn't sound so bad now.

With everything bad now days, i guess we are all going to die soon. Well so much for saving for retirement, lets all go on vaction with deodorant and cheeseburgers and whatever else is killing us. LOL.

I am a cancer survivor so I use perfume and natural deodorants. I never use anti perspirants.

Newborn to old age is now being bombarded with so much artificial stuff....peanut butter wasn't an allergen for millions of people who grew up on it....now it is so fatal that daycare and school can't even serve it....that ought to tell us something. Be more careful of what you put in your mouth and on your body...and breathe like hair spray or deodorant spray.

Oh good...not all deodorants...my mini-heart attack is gone.

Summer- did you actually READ the research publication you refer to here? If you so, you would have caught the part where it says, "The finding of similar concentrations of parabens in the breast tissue of women who reported to be current, past or nonusers of underarm cosmetics suggests the parabens to have originated from a source other than underarm cosmetic application."

This article should be removed as it is a fabrication on the part of the author.

there is something called soap.....