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“Suncream causes cancer…”

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dillydally79 · 20/06/2025 12:40

I have just read this headline as Kelsey Parker has supposedly stated this during a recent podcast.

I have never heard this before, but i am consciously trying to make healthy changes in other areas of mine and my kids lives so I am interested. Anyone know more? I’ve never really thought about this before as I just think of suncream as a necessity, but is it??

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dillydally79 · 20/06/2025 12:59

BatchCookBabe · 20/06/2025 12:50

2 threads dissing sunscreen on here - posted in less than half an hour of each other?!

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5358552-new-online-trend-to-say-its-better-not-to-wear-sunscreen?reply=145128429

🤔

Obviously you need to bloody use it. What's with the conspiracy theories today?!

have not seen the other thread however I’m pretty sure I didn’t diss it..

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PondUnderTrees · 20/06/2025 12:54

dillydally79 · 20/06/2025 12:46

Yes I seriously am. I was shocked at the amount of comments under the news article that were agreeing with her statement. Apparently she uses bees wax instead. I have never heard of this before so I am asking a question.

If you generally take your health advice from the comments under a newspaper article quoting a podcast host with no medical qualifications, I can’t help you.

SansOgm · 20/06/2025 12:52

Kelsey Parker, the dermatologist? Or Kelsey Parker, the oncologist? Or is it the Kelsey Parker who is an eminent scientist specialising in cancer research? No. Oh well.

BatchCookBabe · 20/06/2025 12:50

2 threads dissing sunscreen on here - posted in less than half an hour of each other?!

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5358552-new-online-trend-to-say-its-better-not-to-wear-sunscreen?reply=145128429

🤔

Obviously you need to bloody use it. What's with the conspiracy theories today?!

Justneedabookto · 20/06/2025 12:49

Surely you know that it’s conspiracy theory bollocks?

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dillydally79 · 20/06/2025 12:46

Yes I seriously am. I was shocked at the amount of comments under the news article that were agreeing with her statement. Apparently she uses bees wax instead. I have never heard of this before so I am asking a question.

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PondUnderTrees · 20/06/2025 12:46

How odd that two posters started threads on this within a ten-minute period.

Sundaymorningcalla · 20/06/2025 12:44

Are you seriously asking this?

Sun cream has saved millions from melanoma, one of the most aggressive and under diagnosed cancers.

Show me one peer reviewed article that evidences modern sun cream causing cancer? You won't find one.

You could argue that when first invented some of the substances used were probably carcinogenic. But it's not the 1950's anymore.

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