A study published last year by Swedish researchers found tattoos can increase your risk of a deadly blood cancer, and the threat could lie with a specific colour.

For most five-year-olds, temporary tattoos are a fun way to decorate arms and hands. But for Brynlee Ailinger, they’re a symbol of strength, courage and kindness.

Researchers also discovered that as leukemia cells drink up taurine, it promotes glycolysis (a breakdown of glucose to produce energy) to feed cancer growth.

For North Side woman, goofy tattoo is a way to remember best friend lost to breast cancer Maggie Losek was grieving when she got a tattoo of her late friend, Jillian Flynn. She wanted something ...

A dermatologist has issued a warning to tattoo enthusiasts, claiming that ink can have an adverse effect on cancer diagnosis ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short single ...

TATTOOS CAN BE more than decorative ink on a body, they can have therapeutic effects for cancer survivors, a researcher at Dublin City University says.

The researchers found that the risk for skin cancer (any type except basal cell carcinoma) was 1.62 times higher among tattooed individuals in the case-control study (95 percent confidence ...

Tattoos larger than the palm of a hand more than double a person's risk of skin cancer and nearly triple their risk of lymphoma, or cancer of the lymph nodes, researchers found.

Tattoos larger than the palm of a hand more than double a person’s risk of skin cancer and nearly triple their risk of lymphoma, or cancer of the lymph nodes, researchers found.

Tattoos may be linked to an increased risk of developing cancer, scientists have claimed. They say that a small portion of injected ink may travel through the body, ending up in the lymph nodes ...

PEOPLE with tattoos may face a higher risk of skin and blood cancer than those without, a new study warns. Scientists from the University of Southern Denmark explored whether tattoo ink could … ...