Melanotan may increase the risk of melanoma. — Whalespan
Melanotan may increase the risk of melanoma.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“They also discovered, this isn't an individual. This is reading about this in various manuscripts and peer-reviewed papers that it could cause things like priapism, like sustained erection, that might be the last one that anyone would ever have because of damage to the vasculature.”
“It doesn't take a rocket scientist to think, is that going to increase melanoma? Yeah, it could definitely increase melanoma. And there are multiple reports of melanotan use either reactivating dormant melanomas or increasing melanoma incidents in both animals and humans.”
“Now, the problem stimulating melanocytes is it stimulates all melanocytes, which means it makes you tan without going in the sun, but it's also going to stimulate potentially precancerous melanocytes leading to melanoma. So, rates of melanoma are significantly increased with melanotan 2.”