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Moisturizers Skin Cancer - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 17th Aug, 2008 - 7:26am
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Moisturizers Cause Skin Cancer?
So, it's not the sun exposure but the very creams and lotions we use to combat the drying effects?
From FoxNews:
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| According to a new study by researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, several commonly used skin creams may cause skin tumors - at least in mice, Reuters reported. Dr. Allan Conney, professor of cancer and leukemia research at Rutgers, discovered the risk while testing a theory that caffeine could prevent skin cancer, according to the report. "We sort of got into this by accident," Conney told Reuters. "We wanted a safe cream that we could put the caffeine into." Conney and colleagues stumbled across the findings after they exposed hairless mice to ultraviolet radiation to mimic sun exposure. Afterward, they applied four popular moisturizers to the mice. What they found was that all four - Dermabase, Dermavan, Eucerin and Vanicream - caused tumors to grow on the mice. |
Or is it really the UV radiation exposure?
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| While researchers said the results should prompt experts to check to see if these creams cause growths in people as well - other experts were quite skeptical of the study. "This is a pretty artificial situation with the mouse skin primed by a lot of UV light to develop cancer," Karol Sikora, medical director of Cancer Partners U.K. in Britain, said in a statement. |
This question is far from answered. More studies will follow, I have no doubt.
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It seems to me that almost anything will cause cancer in mice. Those little rodents seem to quite susceptible. I think I will wait for the results from "further studies" before tossing out my moisturizers. In the meantime I am not going to panic or change my daily routine.
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