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Redheads have higher incidence of gynecologic cancers
Just read a research article that states natural tedheads have a higher risk of gynecologic cancers related to being exposed to higher levels of estrogen before birth. Prenatal estrogen influences not only the emergence of certain medical conditions but also the development of certain hair colors, particularly red hair. One anthropologist stated there’s a three way relationship between being a woman, having ted hair and having these diseases (gynecological cancers. Any other red heads out there diagnosed with a gynecological cancer?
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@aardvark2118 Could you please tell us where you read this research article? You can either post the link here or you can copy and paste the name of the author(s) and the publication where you read this. Thank you.
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1 ReactionBalderdash. I am a redhead and I hear this kind of claim frequently - our pain fibers are less or more resistant to pain, we are more susceptible to skin cancer, we are more intelligent, we are less intelligent, more of us are left handed than the general population.
Show me credible research or consider it entertainment.
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2 ReactionsThere are a couple of article on the PLOSOne site and one on NIH on red hair and pain threshold. Just thought it was interesting not intending it to be a direct correlation or causation
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4 ReactionsAs a redhead, I think a lot of the claims are balderdash as well. However, when working in X-ray, we had the crash cart close by with redheads (also fair skinned, freckled blonds), because they so frequently had allergic reactions (often severe) to the contrast. Unfortunately I didn’t escape the statistic.
Yea I wasn’t challenging you. 🙂
I am a redhead and have Paget's disease of the Vulva
I am a redhead with blue eyes and had stage 2A cervical cancer.
Hi @hurriedh, what treatments did you have? How are you doing now?
i find this interesting as i was told 2 surgeries ago ( i think it was) by the anesthesia people that in the future i needed to tell them i was a redhead before i went gray...they told me that redheads need more of the drugs to numb them and also to knock them out...this came about because i told them i didn't numb well and had actually woke up once while getting oral surgery done...they asked me if i was a redhead and i said well not really red or anything but i did have reddish colors when i was younger and always had kind of auburn highlights when i'd been in the sun a lot.. they told me that medically that made me a redhead and couldn't believe i'd never been told that before by any other docs...so they documented on my chart that i needed to be treated as a redhead and it made my last 2 surgeries go sooo much easier... as for the cancer...i carry the BRCA gene, and was diagnosed with stage 3c metastatic ovarian cancer a little over a year ago (local docs offered comfort care, said no, went 4 hours away for treatment) and have been NED since Oct... does it have to do with being a redhead? or the brca gene? or the fact i live in a really bad cesspool of landfill gasses including benzene and other carcinogenic gasses being emitted (LOTS of people in this area being diagnosed with cancer) ?? or a combination of all 3? who knows... but if you DIDN'T know about the anesthesia differences with redheads, now you do 🙂