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Researchers at Lund University have discovered a potential link between tattoos and an increased risk of lymphoma. Their study involved over 11,000 participants and found that those with tattoos had a 21% higher risk of developing lymphoma, regardless of the tattoo’s size. Further research is planned to explore this association with other cancers and inflammatory diseases.
Our understanding of the long-term health impacts of tattoos is currently limited, with minimal research in this field. A research team at“We have identified people diagnosed with lymphoma via population registers. These individuals were then matched with a control group of the same sex and age, but without lymphoma.
A hypothesis that Christel Nielsen’s research group had before the study was that the size of the tattoo would affect the lymphoma risk. They thought that a full-body tattoo might be associated with a greater risk of cancer compared to a small butterfly on the shoulder, for example. Unexpectedly, the area of the tattooed body surface turned out not to matter.
“We already know that when the tattoo ink is injected into the skin, the body interprets this as something foreign that should not be there, and the immune system is activated. A large part of the ink is transported away from the skin, to the lymph nodes where it is deposited”, says Christel Nielsen.
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