# Hair Relaxer Case Review

> Chemical hair straightener case review: years of product use, the gynecologic workup, the diagnosis and every other risk factor, all page-cited.

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Hair relaxer cases

## 20 years of relaxer use. *The case needs every year on paper.*

Medrecords AI lines up the product use with the medical file: salons, brands and how often, then the gynecologic history, the workup, the diagnosis and every other risk factor the chart records. Every entry links to its page. Causation stays with your experts.

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- HIPAA, under a BAA
- SOC 2
- 100 pages a minute
- First case is free on us

**1 plaintiff, use to diagnosis** — tap a point
study · 17 Oct 2022
Product use
Medical
2004 — 2012 — 2021 — 2023 — 2024
10 May 2016Gynecology — Medical
Irregular periods. Body mass index 31.

p. 20 — other risk factor
Illustrative case. The plaintiff, products, dates and pages are fictional. The years before 2021 are drawn narrower. The study date is real.
4times a year
Use more often than this counted as frequent in the Sister Study, which linked it to more than twice the risk of uterine cancer.

Chang et al., JNCI, Oct 2022
3060MDL
The federal hair relaxer litigation, centralized in the Northern District of Illinois.

JPML, MDL No. 3060
1judge
Federal cases that share questions of fact can be sent to 1 court for pretrial proceedings.

[28 U.S.C. §1407](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1407)
100pages a minute
How fast Medrecords AI reads the file.

Medrecords AI
Where hair relaxer cases turn

### 6 places the defense looks first. The chronology gets you there before they do.

Product use runs for decades and is rarely written down in a medical chart. These are the points where the case gets decided, each flagged with its page.

Product use

#### Brands and years

Every brand, salon and year of use from receipts, photos, salon records and questionnaires, side by side.

product namedProduct use

#### How often

Use frequency from every source, so it can be set against the study's definition of frequent use.

use patternMedical

#### The first symptoms

The first note of bleeding, pain or an abnormal scan, dated and quoted.

symptom onsetMedical

#### The diagnosis

Pathology, type and stage, quoted as written, with the surgery that followed.

citedMedical

#### Every other risk factor

Weight, hormone therapy, family history and genetic results the chart records, each with its page.

other risk factorBoth

#### The records that never arrived

The pathology report, the genetic testing, the salon records a questionnaire mentions. Listed with the page that points to each one.

missing-records list
Sample output

### What comes back: decades of use and the diagnosis on 1 timeline, every line cited.

| Date | Source | Finding | Page | Flag |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 Mar 2004 | Salon records | Relaxer every 6 to 8 weeks. | p. 3 | use pattern |
| 1 Jun 2012 | Plaintiff questionnaire | Switched to a home relaxer kit. Brand named. | p. 6 | product named |
| 1 Jan 2021 | Receipts | Home kits bought every 2 months. | p. 9 | cited |
| 1 Nov 2022 | Plaintiff questionnaire | Stopped after the study made the news. | p. 7 | exposure end |

| Date | Source | Finding | Page | Flag |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10 May 2016 | Gynecology | Irregular periods. Body mass index 31. | p. 20 | other risk factor |
| 3 Feb 2023 | Gynecology | Bleeding after menopause. Ultrasound ordered. | p. 34 | symptom onset |
| 15 Mar 2023 | Pathology | Endometrial biopsy: endometrial carcinoma. | p. 41 | cited |
| 2 May 2023 | Gynecologic oncology | Hysterectomy. No hormone therapy history. | p. 55 | cited |
| 1 Oct 2024 | Genetic testing | Lynch syndrome panel negative. | p. 70 | other cause ruled out |

Fictional case built for this page. Real output carries the same columns, with every page linked to the source PDF.
How it works

### Send the file. Get 1 timeline back.

#### What you send

- Receipts, photos, salon records and questionnaires
- Gynecology and oncology records
- Pathology and genetic testing reports
- Pharmacy records for hormone use
- Any format: PDFs, scans, faxes, phone photos

#### What you get

- Product use by brand and year, with pages
- The gynecologic history and the diagnosis in order
- Every other risk factor the chart records
- Fact sheet answers drafted from the record
- A list of records the file refers to but does not contain

#### We lay out the record. Your experts give the causation opinion.

We assemble and cite the product use, the medical course and the other risk factors. We do not say relaxers cause cancer, that they caused this plaintiff's cancer, or which brand is responsible. Those belong to your retained experts.

**HIPAA, under a signed BAA** — Every file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement.
**SOC 2** — Encryption in transit and at rest, and PHI access logging on every event.
**Never trains a model** — Your records never train any AI model, ours or anyone else’s.
**Deleted after delivery** — Files are deleted 30 days after delivery, with an audit log of every access.
Questions

### Hair relaxer case review, answered.

**How do you prove years of product use?**
We collect every receipt, photo, salon record and questionnaire answer that shows use, with pages and dates, and flag the years with no proof.

**Do you cover uterine, endometrial and ovarian cancer cases?**
Yes. The chronology follows whatever diagnosis the records show, with the pathology quoted as written.

**Can you screen a large intake?**
Yes. The same fields are pulled for every claimant: brands, years, frequency, diagnosis, date and other risk factors, ready for case selection and fact sheets.

**Do you retrieve records from providers?**
No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already have, and review starts in minutes from upload.

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### Send us 1 hair relaxer case. The first case is free on us.

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### Sources

Every rule, regulation, statute and published standard named on this page is linked below to the text the body that issues it puts out, read on the date shown. Where a standard is sold rather than published, the link goes to its publisher's page for it. A few rules are named without a link, because no source we could read and confirm publishes them.

- [28 U.S.C. 1407](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1407) — Cornell LII, read 25 Sep 2026

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