One of the chemicals establish in black tattoo inks, benzo(a)pyrene, is a potent carcinogen that causes skin cancer in animal tests dermatologists include published reports in medical journals on rare, perhaps coincidental cases where malignant melanomas are establish in tattoos.
Recently, the Food and Drug Administration launched new studies to examine the long-term safety of the inks, including what happens when they break down in the body or interrelate with light research already has shown that tattoo inks wander into people's lymph nodes.
For now, it's unclear what, if any, long-term health risks are posed by tattoo inks an predictable 45 million people in the United States, as well as 36 percent of adults in their late 20s, have at least one tattoo, according to estimate by the FDA and a Harris Interactive Poll.
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