Can Tattoos Cause Cancer?

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Is it true that having tattoos increases your risk of cancer?

Phuong Q. Tien, MD · Answer

Here is the direct quote from skincancer.org “Dermatologists have been evaluating patients with tattoos for decades for any evidence of skin cancer, and they have never found an increased prevalence of the disease in those individuals. The same is true for patients who have already had melanoma or another form of skin cancer; the inks used in tattoos have never been shown to increase their risk of recurrence. People who have had skin cancer are always at higher risk of developing future skin cancers, but tattoos do not increase that risk.”

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