Tattoo Causes Cancer

Tattoo Causes Cancer

30 year old woman comes to the doctor because of experiencing the bumps on the inside of her arm. It's just that, he absolutely did not feel other symptoms such as fever, weight loss, or respiratory disorders. The only thing disturbing the woman is the presence of lumps that appear during the last two weeks.

Offered from men's Health, the case that the woman was published in a journal called Annals of Internal Medicine. A doctor who examined the woman condition considers his condition is fine, including the skin on his back and his shoulder filled with black tattoos since 15 years ago.

Deeper research done by any doctor and find the swelling of the lymph nodes are small and shaped like a kidney. This swelling occurs at the armpit and filled with white blood cells indicate that the body is fighting something that's being considered harmful.

Doctor pun mendiagnosisnya with lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that begins in the lymph nodes. In order to prevent things that are undesirable, doctors ever directly lifted part of the swell. It's just confusion, the doctors because they think it is cancer and has a thick black color turned out to have absolutely no cancer cells.

After checking in, the doctor ever diagnosed the woman with the issue of granulomatous lymphadenitis, inflammation occurs in the lymph nodes. For special cases the woman is experienced, this is caused by hypersensitivity on the tattoo he obtained 15 years ago. The woman then claimed to feel symptoms such as itching on skin tattooed several times each month.

Although relieved because in him it turned out there was no cancer, the woman claimed to still be concerned with conditions that affect them and not think if the tattoo is the cause.