RESOURCES FROM WHEELCHAIR USERS WHO ARE CURRENTLY BATTLING OR HAVE BEATEN CANCER
While undergoing treatment, Roy has expanded her advocacy to educating people about catheters and bladder cancer.
“People with spinal cord injuries that do intermittent catheterization get irritations and increased incidence of UTIs that put us at higher risk for cancer,” she says.
“I catheterized with products that turned out to have a carcinogen in them.”
She’s referring to Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), which
is commonly used in plastics to make them flexible and requires a consumer
warning label under Proposition 65 in California because it “can cause cancer
and birth defects or other reproductive harm.”
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