“Suncream causes cancer…”

[dillydally79]

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??

There is no evidence that that the most common organic UV filters used in sunscreens cause endocrine disruption in humans. The rodent studies you mention used high oral doses, so as long as you don't chug down gallons of the stuff, you'll be fine😙
I'll take pale over melanoma any day.

They won’t want to do there studies on humans.

Who is "they" @CareerChange24?

Exactly!

100-200 years ago people weren’t living long enough to get cancer on the scale they currently are. They would die of something else first

I can see this.
my grandfather had skin cancer at an older age - luckily it was able to be cut out and didn’t require further treatment.

but I fully put it down to the fact he was in Burma in the war - and they weren’t going to pause the war for soldiers to put on suncream

Look, it may cause cancer in the sense that it may allow people to think it’s ok to be out in the sun when they should be in the shade.

but otherwise it’s like someone saying that hospitals cause death because so many people who die have used a hospital…

Like many conspiracy theories this 'suncream causes cancer' does have some basis in fact, but has become very twisted from those facts. It started in relation to American suncream where it does have some weight. A few years ago they had an issue with suncream and multiple brands had to be recalled because cancer causes chemicals were found.

On top of that, the US classes it as a drug which makes licencing new ingredients very difficult. In Europe it's classified as a cosmetic so new products are easier to bring about. As a result european suncreams are more advanced and protect against UVB and UVA, whereas american ones are older and only protect against UVB (I think, could be the other one). So an American using suncream is more likely to get cancer than their european counterpart, which in conspiracy speak translates as american suncream causes cancer.

Didn’t know this! Thank you for sharing

I worry about my mum as she lived in hot countries a lot and she doesn’t even cover up, no sunglasses, nothing. I’m glad he didn’t suffer from it. X

It’s such hard thing to quantify eh? The only thing we can do, I believe, is listen to the science laid out in front of us and go with what skin cancer experts say. I think it’s so dangerous to listen to social media, yet so many people do it.