Tanning Beds: Skin Mutation Risk Increased
- Tanning booth users are also at greater risk of developing melanomas on areas of the body usually little exposed to the sun, such as the buttocks.
- The diagnoses melanomathe most serious skin cancer, have increased significantly over the past forty years.
- The study confirms that exposure to Artificial UV is associated with an increased risk of melanoma, and that this risk increases with the number of exposures.
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Tanning booth users are also at greater risk of developing melanomas on areas of the body usually little exposed to the sun, such as the buttocks.
The diagnoses melanomathe most serious skin cancer, have increased significantly over the past forty years. “This increase has disproportionately affected young women, the tanning industry’s main customers”report American scientists in a study once again showing the danger of tanning beds. These researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago and the University of California, San Francisco, consulted the medical records of some 6,000 patients followed in a dermatology department, half of whom declared having used sunbeds. Researchers publish their findings in the journal Science Advances Friday.
Areas little exposed to the sun
The study confirms that exposure to Artificial UV is associated with an increased risk of melanoma, and that this risk increases with the number of exposures. But researchers also note that tanning booth users are more likely to have multiple melanomas and that…
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