Sunscreen vs. skin cancer: cancer winning
Posted on August 5, 2003
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Sunscreen ‘increases cancer risk’
Wearing sunscreen makes people stay in the sun too long - and could release cancer-causing substances into the body, according to specialists.
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And a British biochemist has suggested that the cocktail of chemicals involved in sunscreens could be converted into “free radical” molecules, which could cause cell damage and lead to cancer.
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He [Dr John Knowland] said: “The important thing to remember is that a sunscreen that absorbs energy cannot actually destroy that energy, it has to do something with it. The concern that some people have is that they can convert the light energy into chemical energy, which is potentially damaging.”
Huh. Well that’s certainly ironic.