Carefully, Whitening Face Cream Can Cause Skin Cancer
Commonly known cause of skin cancer due to exposure to ultraviolet light. In fact, many other factors that can cause skin cancer. One is exposure to chemicals.
Surgery Specialists Afrimal Syafarudin Oncology revealed that exposure to chemicals on the skin can come from cosmetics. Afrimal tell, he never found patients suffering from skin cancer because it often wear a face whitening cream, which turned out to contain carcinogenic chemicals, such as mercury. Is carcinogenic chemicals that can trigger cancer.
"I have a patient who had cancer because of wear cosmetics. If I see from my patients, they wear a whitening cream that is two to three days have seen straight white skin, "explained Afrimal in media discussions in Bunda Hospital Jakarta, Friday (01/15/2016).
Specialist Doctors Dermatology Rachel Juanda said, in medical terms there is no skin-lightening creams, but creams that lighten the skin.Therefore, be careful in choosing cosmetics.
"Products that can whiten the skin instantly to watch out," said Rachel.
According to Rachel, skin whitening can also reduce the skin's defense against ultraviolet rays. Moreover, Indonesia is a tropical country with sun exposure was overpowering.
Skin cancer is more common in people who are light-skinned. Australia is a country with cases of skin cancer are quite high from other countries.In Indonesia, cases of skin cancer is not very high compared to western countries, which is about 17.4 percent.
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