Coorelation Between Tattoos and Melanoma

First off, if you have a family history of melanoma, you're more prone to those spots anyway... ditto if you are a sun worshiper... ditto if you're fair skinned.

I am covered in tattoos... my brother is not... guess which one of us has had a million biopsies? Not me! We both have red hair and freckles... some of his turned 'bad'... mine don't... I always said I was the cuter of the two ;)

This is why you should always, always go to a reputable, licensed tattoo artist (not TLCs shitty tattoo school, that show is an abomination) who uses approved and sterile inks, needles, and machines.

Other things you may not know about tattoos: you are more prone to having a serious allergic reaction to DIY hair dye. That one's true. A MYTH about tattoos is that you will become radioactive in an MRI... proven untrue.

For a long time, red inks were the only one's not approved; now they are. Green is the hardest color to have laser removed.

I call bullsh!t on the melanoma thing. I know my stuff, and I've been researching this for... forever. Do you have the origin of the article? Or is this another BS Facebook thing like 'If you don't repost this as your status, you'll have bad luck for 5 year'?

ETA: Thanks for posting the article, I'm still not convinced, not by a long shot. People also say vitamins are bad for you. Please... I'm not just saying this because I'm tattooed and plan on continuing with getting tattooed, I just said that it's been proven that the approved ink does NOT contain metal... just don't go to some ex-con's garage and get inked up, okay? ;) This is also why you always have to fill out paperwork before getting tattooed... they will NOT tattoo you if you have certain medical conditions and/or allergies.

It even says in the article it is unclear if tattoos have any cause in the pathogenesis of melanoma, basal cells, squamous cells, etc.

Key word there is 'if'... a biiiiig IF.

@a.m.a.n.d.a... that's what I'm here for ;) If I believed everything I read, I'd have rabies, cancer, cataracts, AIDS, mad cow disease, diarrhea, chronic heart problems, and be a deaf/mute ;)

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Whoa! Interesting. Can you post the link?

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Interesting.... I have known lots of people with various forms of cancer...& wouldnt you know it, that not one of them even had a tattoo.... .

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Yikes, hardly a scientific article at all. It has a startling headline and absolutely nothing to back it up at all. I hate sensational articles like this! I would worry much more about putting sunscreen on your children.

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I have a tattoo and I have never heard of that.

I do put sunscreen on it when I am out and it is visible so that the ink does not fade.

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Never heard that before. I have a tattoo and haven't had a problem. The people I do know that have had cancer of any kind do not have tattoos.

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No. Don't believe it. My father died too young this year from melanoma. He also had a tattoo. It was the years in the surf that did it.

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That article reads like propaganda IMO. My father worked in a tattoo shop while I was growing up, and my brother is a tattooist. I have met thousands of people over the course of my life who are tattooed, including everyone over 18 in my family. Now I don't know where all of the people I've met over the years are, obviously, but I would think that having been around this business for almost 40 years that if melanoma was that much of a risk I'd know at least one tattooed person who has gotten it and I do not. Yup...not one.