US Woman Sues Shampoo Brand For Allegedly Causing Cancer

After several research reports claimed that the chemicals found in a particular product brand are one of the contributors to the development of cancer cells, a woman in the United States decided to sue to brand after her own experience of facing the disease.

A woman named Jenny Mitchell filed a civil lawsuit against a popular hair shampoo brand claiming that she was struck with uterine cancer after using the hair strengthing chemical for over two decades.

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Woman Sues Shampoo Brand

Jenny Mitchell had been using a hair product for over two decades for a particular cause of hair strengthening. Reportedly, in the civil lawsuit filed against the company, Mitchell stated that she got uterine cancer two decades after using the product regularly, and the cancer made her undergo a full hysterectomy.

This lawsuit comes a few days after a study was released publicly establishing link between chemically drawn hair products and cancer. The study was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and it gave away facts that caused justification for these chemicals contributing to cancer among people. The study further elaborates on how hair straightening products and straighteners can also contribute to uterine cancer.

The study revealed that women using these products more than four times in year were twice as likely to be struck with uterine cancer than women who don't use these chemicals. While uterine cancer is rare, the United States is now seeing a surge in women developing this type of cancer.

Mitchell's lawyer Ben Crump made a statement on Friday mentioning that many black women have been suffering from cancer and have become victims of these dangerous hair products that have been marketed for them. Crump added that "tragically Mitchell's case is one of the countless cases in which firms aggressively deluded Black women to buy their products regularly and, in return, increasing the company’s profit margins.”

Earlier in June, the same company alongside other cosmetic companies came under the radar for allegedly using a certain type of chemical in some of their moisturising creams which proved t be harmful to the human body and caused skin damage.