According to a MedWatch Today article, breast cancer patients may unknowingly expose themselves to estrogen by using certain skin moisturizers, a breast cancer survivor reported here.
Laboratory analyses identified a half-dozen different products containing measurable levels of estriol and estrone, Adrienne C. Olson, Pharm.D., of Breastlink in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., told attendees at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
None of the products listed the estrogenic hormones among its ingredients.
"No one could tell from reading the ingredients that the products contained estrogenic hormones," she said.
Read the rest of the article at MedWatch.
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