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Tattoos, no matter what size, can put you at increased cancer risk: Study

Tattoos, once the mark of rebellion or a symbol of niche subcultures, have burst into the mainstrea…

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I was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at 36. Ten years later, I'm still learning to be confident in my body.

Melissa Eppard was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer when she was 36. She removed her impl…

Lauren Crosby Medlicott   


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Powerful photos show how a breast-cancer survivor turned her scars into art with free tattoos

Jacqueline Van Schaik received free tattoos from the Dutch organization Tittoo.org.Tittoo.org

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The doctors thought I was suffering from COVID. Turns out, I had Stage 4 cancer.

Doctors thought that I had COVID, but it was actually cancer. The thought of getting back on my uni…

Kelly Burch   


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A TikTok dispute over a customer paying $2,600 for a rough tattoo sketch and no actual tattoo has spiraled out of control

Courtney Monteith turned to TikTok when she ended up thousands out of pocket and no tattoo to speak…

Lindsay Dodgson   


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I despised and mocked people with tattoos my whole life. But then my husband died, and I decided to get one in my 50s.

She found tattoos gross, but then she wanted a permanent mark on her body to celebrate her late hus…

Helene Kiser   


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2 dermatologists told us why you should never, ever tattoo over your moles

Changes in moles can indicate early signs of melanoma and other skin cancers, but that can be hard …

Julia Pugachevsky   


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Clients like Taylor Swift and 'Euphoria' love my realistic airbrush tattoos. Here's how I built my business.

Grace Lovejoy built her airbrush tattoo business while battling stage 3 cancer. A$AP Rocky, Taylor …

Eboni Boykin-Patterson   


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Virgin Atlantic's CEO Shai Weiss says he has cancer and had a tumor removed but will keep working: report

Chief executive of Richard Branson's airline tells The Sunday Telegraph he found he had stage three…

Sam Tabahriti   


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I interviewed a breast-cancer survivor who wanted me to tell her story. She was actually an AI.

When a woman asked me to write about her mastectomy, I got a crash course in how AI can pretend to …

Julia Pugachevsky   


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People are getting coronavirus-themed tattoos of nurses, masks, and toilet paper as they deal with pandemic trauma

Body art has often been used to own and process trauma, and the coronavirus pandemic is no exceptio…

Lauren Vespoli   


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Chemicals in hair dye may increase the risk of cancer in pregnant people — especially women of color

Nearly all of the women included in the study had industrial chemicals in their urine, but the high…

Andrea Michelson   


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Nick Cannon shares new tattoo depicting his son Zen as an angel after the 5-month-old's death

Cannon revealed the tattoo, which depicts his son as an angel, on his talk show on Friday, saying i…

Kelly McLaughlin   


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'Peaky Blinders' pays tribute to Helen McCrory with special clapperboard of her character

Helen McCroy, who died on Friday from cancer, played Aunt Polly in 30 episodes of BBC's "Peaky Blin…

Jacob Sarkisian   


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Meet the 'High Priest of Hollywood Tattoo Artists,' who started out illegally tattooing bike gangs and now calls Johnny Depp 'brother'

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the magician David Blaine, who once received a tattoo across h…

Tom Murray   


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This 9/11 first responder had his family's DNA tattooed into his skin so that he's never alone while undergoing chemotherapy

As a result of the time he spent in the dangerously dusty air that circulated "on the pile" after t…

Hilary Brueck   


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Cancer-causing toxins were just found in foundation and sparkly makeup - here are 11 chemicals that could lurk in your lipstick, lotion, and eye powder

Some toxic ingredients (like asbestos) are inadvertently added during the manufacturing process, wh…

Hilary Brueck   


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These 13 chefs telling the stories behind their tattoos will make you laugh, cry, and call your mom

"My left arm is tattooed with the words 'ALL OR NONE,' written in my own handwriting. It's inspired…

April Walloga   


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