Tanning Beds And Cancer
Tanning is a sign your skin cells are in trauma.
Tanning beds and cancer. When it comes to tanning she s. Even if a tan fades the damage remains. Skin cancer i believed was avoidable as long as i tanned in moderation.
She was nonchalant about it it was dark and itchy but it didn t have the irregular borders of melanoma. Most skin cancers are caused by harmful uv radiation which we encounter from the sun or when tanning indoors using a tanning bed. The world health organization s international agency for research on.
They emit stronger ultraviolet uv radiation levels than the sun up to six times as strong as the midday summer sun. They raise the risk for skin cancers. The more you tan your skin the greater your risk of skin cancer.
Tanning beds don t offer a safe alternative to sunlight. Rita linkner is a dermatologist at spring street dermatology in new york city. Tanning beds can cause melanoma i had a mole on my stomach that i showed my doctor.
Indoor tanning s link with various types of cancers involves its use of ultraviolet rays in a hyper concentrated setting. There are two types of uv radiation that can reach the skin. This means they can damage your skin even faster than uv from the sun and lead to cancer.
Indoor tanning is dangerous. There is no such thing as a safe tan whether from the sun or a solarium. Solarium tanning solariums emit harmful levels of uv radiation which contributes to increased skin cancer risk acute sunburn and blistering photoageing ocular diseases and local and systemic immunosuppression.
One study observing 63 women diagnosed with melanoma before age 30 found that 61 of them that s 97 percent used tanning beds. They are banned for commercial use in all australian states and territories. It s also linked with eye cancers such as ocular melanoma.
Solariums also known as sunbeds sunlamps or tanning beds use uv radiation to tan the skin.
