Indoor tanning raises cancer risks

Posted on | June 3, 2010 | No Comments

I kept having the impression that indoor tanning will reduce the risk of skin cancer and the skin tone will be richer and more balance. That’s before I read the article from “Mind your Body” from The Straits Times on 3 June 2010.

After reading the article, I am glad that I did not try to sign up packages from Bronz and Fabulous Tan. I am wondering what will happen to their business after knowing that there is an increase risk, not 1 but 3 times, will affect their business.

“Spend 50 hours on a tanning bed and you are 3 times more likely to develop melanoma”

The story goes:

People who regularly use tanning beds to get a healthy glow may triple their risk of developing melanoma, the deadliest form of skin caner, said a recent study. The study found that people who have ever tanned indoors have on average about a 75 per cent higher risk of melanoma than people who have never tried it, reported CNN.

However, the risk of melanoma was much higher among frequent and long-term indoor tanners.

Compared with those who have never touched a tanning bed, people who spent more than 50 hours under the lights were three times more likely to develop melanoma.

The study results also suggest that a person’s melanoma risk is more closely linked to total exposure than to the age at which he first tans indoors.

The new study, which appears in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, included nearly 1,00 melanoma patients in Minnesota and a cancer -free control group.

- from Mind Your Body, The Straits Times, 3 June 2010.

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