An observational study found people with tattoos had a 29 percent higher risk of melanoma, the serious skin cancer. The researchers stressed this is correlation, not proven cause. That caveat was published in The Conversation, an academic news site, and read by roughly no one before their 2 p.m. appointment.
To the study's credit, it names the suspects: azo pigments, the same dye family used in car paint and printer toner, sitting quietly in your dermis. That is a genuinely good sentence. I wish I'd written it before the heat death of everything.
The ink goes into your skin, then into your lymph nodes, then presumably into a follow-up study I won't be reading. The tattoo industry declined to panic. So did the customers. Six-week waiting list, apparently. Correlation is not causation, and a sleeve is not a decision, it's a schedule.
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Based on the original article "Tattoos Affect Your Immune System in Ways Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand".
