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The only thing surprising here is that it isn't scalp cancer. Hair straighteners work by breaking and reforming the disulphide bonds in proteins. Proteins perf
by tropo 7y ago
The only thing surprising here is that it isn't scalp cancer.
Hair straighteners work by breaking and reforming the disulphide bonds in proteins. Proteins perform many important roles related to DNA repair, chromosome formation, DNA replication, and other cancer-relevant actions. It can't be good to have bonds in those proteins getting changed somewhat randomly.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoSkin has millions of years of incremental improvement at keeping stuff out. It is not unheard of for a carcinogen applied to the body to not cause skin cancer directly but to cause cancer elsewhere because being on the body makes it likely to get in through the various holes where it then finds its way to some more susceptible tissue.