Ovarian Cancer Lawsuit Joins Uterine And Breast Cancer Chemical Hair Straightener Claims

Using chemical hair relaxers and straighteners several times per year for several years could cause women to develop ovarian cancer, a painful and often deadly disease

Monday, January 23, 2023 - Women with uterine cancer, breast cancer, and ovarian cancer are filing hair relaxer cancer lawsuits in an effort to hold companies like L'Oreal and others responsible for failing to warn them of the danger to their health from using their product. AboutLawsuits.com (AL) recently wrote about one woman with ovarian cancer who had filed a personal injury lawsuit against the maker of her chemical hair relaxer product. Ovarian cancer is especially insidious because the symptoms of the disease are masked by the pain and discomfort a woman experiences during menstruation. Failing to diagnose ovarian cancer early enough could cause the disease to metastasize (spread) to other vital organs in the body through the bloodstream making it more difficult to treat. If ovarian cancer is left untreated until stage four, there is less than a 5% chance a woman will live more than a few years. According to the American Cancer Society, " women diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer have a five-year survival rate of approximately 17%. Many Black women were targeted with chemical hair straightener advertising and have grown to depend on the product using it once about every three months for a decade or more. Some women report starting to use chemical hair relaxers at about 12 years old and have used them their entire life. Studies indicate that the longer a woman uses chemical hair straighteners, the greater the risk of developing cancer.

The article is titled: " Hair Relaxer Ovarian Cancer Lawsuit Filed By Woman Diagnosed At Age 35, Resulting in Hysterectomy and Chemotherapy," and alleges "the lawsuit indicates regular and prolonged exposure to hair relaxer caused ovarian cancer, alleging that users are not warned about the potential risk. According to AL, the lawsuit targets the manufacturers of Dark & Lovely, Optimum, Motions, and other hair relaxer brands for failing to warn Missouri woman Tamara Sigars, 35 about the chemicals in the products that allegedly caused her to develop hair relaxer ovarian cancer. Sigars used the products regularly from age 16 to 35. Studies conducted by the National Institute of Health (NIH), The Journal of The Institute For Cancer, and others point to the toxic chemicals in hair straighteners containing endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that may lead to ovarian and other cancers of the female reproductive system. Ovarian cancer usually requires a partial or full hysterectomy to treat, leaving the victim unable to ever bear children. Like other lawsuits, Ms. Sigar's lawsuits alleged that if she was aware of the dangers of using a hair straightener she would have chosen a safer beauty treatment, Al reported. The lawsuit is among the first of many that may be filed alleging that hair straighteners caused ovarian cancer. More than two dozen other lawsuits claim that the product caused uterine and breast cancer. Experts think that chemical hair straightener litigation may grow to include thousands of Black women who were targeted by the product's advertising, and have been sickened or died as a result of using them.

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