If you've checked out the back of your antiperspirant lately, you might have noticed something different: new labels required by the Food and Drug Administration. They point out that antiperspirants are "drugs" containing "aluminum" ingredients — that's what stops the sweat.
The aluminum is also what concerns some people, including Dr. Kris McGrath.
"I personally feel there is a very strong correlation between the underarm hygiene habits and breast cancer," McGrath tells CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.
McGrath, an immunologist and instructor at Northwestern University, has been intrigued by a potential breast cancer link since medical school.
It got personal when his wife — a frequent shaver and antiperspirant user — got breast cancer.
I thought this was some bit of urban legend, but apparently some are loking into a possible connection.
"Breast cancer has existed since Hippocrates. But when you plot the sales of antiperspirant deodorants with the incidence of breast cancer in the United States, they both have grown in almost a parallel fashion."
From CBS.
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