Tattooed to Survive: The Cancer Ink Irony No One Talks About

How tiny radiation bullseyes and trendy full sleeves might quietly invite the very disease you thought you’d beaten. Read this before your next tattoo… or radiotherapy session!

At the beginning of what I fondly call my Cancer Treatment Greatest Hits Tour, a nurse leaned over my ravaged chest and asked, with the casual air of someone offering sugar in tea, “Fancy a few tattoos today, Chris?”

Now, before you imagine a majestic eagle across my chest or ‘Mrs G’ romantically etched on my ankle, let me clarify…I have eight tattoos, e…