Personal Use of Hair Dye and the Risk of Certain Subtypes of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Overview

Journal Am J Epidemiol

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Public Health

Date 2008 Apr 15

PMID 18408225

Citations 44

Authors

Yawei Zhang

Silvia de Sanjose

Paige M Bracci

Lindsay M Morton

Rong Wang

Paul Brennan

Patricia Hartge

Paolo Boffetta

Nikolaus Becker

Marc Maynadie

Lenka Foretova

Pierluigi Cocco

Anthony Staines

Theodore Holford

Elizabeth A Holly

Alexandra Nieters

Yolanda Benavente

Leslie Bernstein

Shelia Hoar Zahm

Tongzhang Zheng

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Personal use of hair dye has been inconsistently linked to risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), perhaps because of small samples or a lack of detailed information on personal hair-dye use in previous studies. This study included 4,461 NHL cases and 5,799 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium 1988-2003. Increased risk of NHL (odds ratio (OR) = 1.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1, 1.4) associated with hair-dye use was observed among women who began using hair dye before 1980. Analyses by NHL subtype showed increased risk for follicular lymphoma (FL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) but not for other NHL subtypes. The increased risks of FL (OR = 1.4, 95% CI: 1.1, 1.9) and CLL/SLL (OR = 1.5, 95% CI: 1.1, 2.0) were mainly observed among women who started using hair dyes before 1980. For women who began using hair dye in 1980 or afterward, increased FL risk was limited to users of dark-colored dyes (OR = 1.5, 95% CI: 1.1, 2.0). These results indicate that personal hair-dye use may play a role in risks of FL and CLL/SLL in women who started use before 1980 and that increased risk of FL among women who started use during or after 1980 cannot be excluded.

Citing Articles

Tattoos and Risk of Hematologic Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study in Utah.

McCarty R, Trabert B, Kriebel D, Millar M, Birmann B, Grieshober L Cancer Med. 2024; 13(20):e70260.

PMID: 39444249 PMC: 11499570. DOI: 10.1002/cam4.70260.

Etiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: A review from epidemiologic studies.

Luo J, Craver A, Bahl K, Stepniak L, Moore K, King J J Natl Cancer Cent. 2024; 2(4):226-234.

PMID: 39036553 PMC: 11256700. DOI: 10.1016/j.jncc.2022.08.003.

Epidemiology and etiology of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Wang S Semin Hematol. 2024; 60(5):255-266.

PMID: 38242772 PMC: 10962251. DOI: 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2023.11.004.

A Systematic Review on Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: An Overlooked Phenomenon in the Health and Research Sector of Bangladesh.

Britto T, Fattah S, Rahman M, Chowdhury M Cureus. 2023; 15(9):e45937.

PMID: 37900448 PMC: 10601349. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.45937.

Potential Pathogenic Impact of Cow's Milk Consumption and Bovine Milk-Derived Exosomal MicroRNAs in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.

Melnik B, Stadler R, Weiskirchen R, Leitzmann C, Schmitz G Int J Mol Sci. 2023; 24(7).

PMID: 37047075 PMC: 10094152. DOI: 10.3390/ijms24076102.

References

Chiu B, Weisenburger D, Hoar Zahm S, Cantor K, Gapstur S, Holmes F . Agricultural pesticide use, familial cancer, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2004; 13(4):525-31. View

de Sanjose S, Benavente Y, Nieters A, Foretova L, Maynadie M, Cocco P . Association between personal use of hair dyes and lymphoid neoplasms in Europe. Am J Epidemiol. 2006; 164(1):47-55. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj187. View

Altekruse S, Henley S, Thun M . Deaths from hematopoietic and other cancers in relation to permanent hair dye use in a large prospective study (United States). Cancer Causes Control. 2000; 10(6):617-25. DOI: 10.1023/a:1008926027805. View

Dave S, Wright G, Tan B, Rosenwald A, Gascoyne R, Chan W . Prediction of survival in follicular lymphoma based on molecular features of tumor-infiltrating immune cells. N Engl J Med. 2004; 351(21):2159-69. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa041869. View

Kawakubo Y, Merk H, Masaoudi T, Sieben S, Blomeke B . N-Acetylation of paraphenylenediamine in human skin and keratinocytes. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1999; 292(1):150-5. View

Smolen T, Brewer J, Weber W . Testosterone modulation of N-acetylation in mouse kidney. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1993; 264(2):854-8. View

Sontag J . Carcinogenicity of substituted-benzenediamines (phenylenediamines) in rats and mice. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1981; 66(3):591-602. View

Thun M, Altekruse S, Namboodiri M, Calle E, Myers D, Heath Jr C . Hair dye use and risk of fatal cancers in U.S. women. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1994; 86(3):210-5. DOI: 10.1093/jnci/86.3.210. View

Stukel T, Demidenko E, Dykes J, Karagas M . Two-stage methods for the analysis of pooled data. Stat Med. 2001; 20(14):2115-30. DOI: 10.1002/sim.852. View

10.

Benavente Y, Garcia N, Domingo-Domenech E, Alvaro T, Font R, Zhang Y . Regular use of hair dyes and risk of lymphoma in Spain. Int J Epidemiol. 2005; 34(5):1118-22. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi109. View

11.

Hoar Zahm S, Fraumeni Jr J . Hair dye use and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. JAMA. 2005; 294(10):1205. DOI: 10.1001/jama.294.10.1205-a. View

12.

Holly E, Lele C, Bracci P . Hair-color products and risk for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a population-based study in the San Francisco bay area. Am J Public Health. 1998; 88(12):1767-73. PMC: 1509050. DOI: 10.2105/ajph.88.12.1767. View

13.

Zahm S, Weisenburger D, Babbitt P, Saal R, Vaught J, Blair A . Use of hair coloring products and the risk of lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Am J Public Health. 1992; 82(7):990-7. PMC: 1694062. DOI: 10.2105/ajph.82.7.990. View

14.

Morton L, Wang S, Devesa S, Hartge P, Weisenburger D, Linet M . Lymphoma incidence patterns by WHO subtype in the United States, 1992-2001. Blood. 2005; 107(1):265-76. PMC: 1895348. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-06-2508. View

15.

Cantor K, Blair A, Everett G, VanLier S, Burmeister L, Dick F . Hair dye use and risk of leukemia and lymphoma. Am J Public Health. 1988; 78(5):570-1. PMC: 1349342. DOI: 10.2105/ajph.78.5.570. View

16.

Borenfreund E, Krim M, SANDERS F, Sternberg S, Bendich A . Malignant conversion of cells in vitro by carcinogens and viruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1966; 56(2):672-9. PMC: 224425. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.56.2.672. View

17.

Chaganti R, Nanjangud G, Schmidt H, Teruya-Feldstein J . Recurring chromosomal abnormalities in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: biologic and clinical significance. Semin Hematol. 2000; 37(4):396-411. DOI: 10.1016/s0037-1963(00)90019-2. View

18.

Grodstein F, Hennekens C, Colditz G, Hunter D, Stampfer M . A prospective study of permanent hair dye use and hematopoietic cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1994; 86(19):1466-70. DOI: 10.1093/jnci/86.19.1466. View

19.

Turesky R, Freeman J, Holland R, Nestorick D, Miller D, Ratnasinghe D . Identification of aminobiphenyl derivatives in commercial hair dyes. Chem Res Toxicol. 2003; 16(9):1162-73. DOI: 10.1021/tx030029r. View

20.

Groves F, Linet M, Travis L, Devesa S . Cancer surveillance series: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma incidence by histologic subtype in the United States from 1978 through 1995. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2000; 92(15):1240-51. DOI: 10.1093/jnci/92.15.1240. View