“I would say we really don’t know very much, but there’s no strong evidence that having a tattoo is going to cause cancer,” Rebbeck said.

Danish twin study found people with large tattoos (bigger than palm-sized) had 2.73 times higher rate of developing lymphoma and 2.37 times higher rate of skin cancer Tattoo ink particles migrate ...

“One can only speculate that a tattoo, regardless of size, triggers a low-grade inflammation in the body, which in turn can trigger cancer. The picture is thus more complex than we initially ...

If tattoo ink did cause cancer, you’d expect people who had more of their body tattooed to be at greater risk. Crucially, the authors did not find this. Even if the data were more convincing ...

Americans are unwittingly exposing themselves to tattoo inks that contain organ-damaging chemicals, disturbing new research has revealed. An analysis of 54 inks commonly used in tattoo parlors ...

However, there is little research into whether or not having a tattoo raises a person’s risk of cancer. Researchers from Lund University Sweden used national registries to identify cases of ...

Most tattoo artists follow strict health and sanitation ... can be contaminated with some of the same cancer-causing molecules found in car exhaust and cigarette smoke. Many red, yellow and ...

A woman who lost her tongue to cancer had it reconstructed with flesh from her left arm – and has a tattoo on it. Jennifer Alexander, 52, was 37 when she was first diagnosed with stage one ...

Lincoln County Hospital is the first in the country to offer open mask radiotherapy treatments Cancer patients in Lincolnshire ... and five permanent pinpoint tattoo marks made on the skin.