Could Toxins in Tattoo Ink Cause Skin Cancer?

Before you get a butterfly stamped on your back, take heed: Tattoo inks can cause rashes, infections, and inflammation, and doctors still aren’t sure how the inks’ chemicals—which eventually migrate into the lymph nodes—behave in the long term. A chemical in black inks called benzo(a)pyrene, for example, has…

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Could Toxins in Tattoo Ink Cause Skin Cancer?

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