• y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Sunscreen causes skin cancer.

    I know it’s probably not true, and I wear sunscreen when I need to, but it just feels wrong slathering all those chemicals on my skin.

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      3 days ago

      I fully believe it causes blood and bone cancer. The aerosol kind, due to benzene. My husband has polycythemia Vera secondary we think could have been caused by sunscreen. We live in a tropical area so we need it year round. Multiple doctors have mentioned it as well as a lawsuit we heard about locally.

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        3 days ago

        I am sorry to hear that :(

        Benzene is certainly a scary chemical and I hope things improve for you both.

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        bone cancer is a different type of cancer than leukemia, its usually found in the long bones in growing/adolescent people, its why you see its always associated with the legs, extremely rare instance was found in the ribs or elsewhere. interesting to know how much benzene is in the spray, it usually associated with industrial exposure in a non-circulating room. sorry for the diagnosis.

        i had a cousin that never smoked, or had 2nd hand smoke but one day developed progressive coughing, with fever, and then blood in the sputum, turns out it was lung cancer that went to both lungs. hes like a gamer type so its a shutin, apparently its rare, because smoking causing specific type and its predictable, its also more likely better prognosis since it would pretty obvious symptoms, but its not so obvious in non-smokers so it displays as advanced case. we theorized it could be in house chemicals, like cleaners, i wonder if its RADON exposure since hes inside all the time, but they dont have a basement though, no asthma or allergies. the mom is less exposed, since she often goes outside all the time.

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      3 days ago

      Probably does since the sunscreen makers have been lying for years about how much protection their product actually offers. People slathered with 30 or 50 when it was really only 5 or 10.

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        2 days ago

        Note that the difference was much less than the difference between 50 -> 5 and it was not true across all brands

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      2 days ago

      not exactly but i think companies were caught lying about the suncreen, how much protection it gives, some gives next to none. and white people are acting like they are immune to sunlight and in the sun for a long periods of time,.