Tanning Beds Cause Cancer

July 30, 2009  Print    Email this Article   No Comments

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Asbestos, mustard gas and plutonium, some of the most dangerous and cancer causing substances known to man. Now joined by the high street sun bed. An advisory committee for the world health organization has re classified ultraviolet radiation as a class one carcinogen where once the risk was probable, now there is no doubt that sun beds cause cancer. Julie cook was a tan-a-holic, but since her mother died of malignant melanoma, after a lifetime of tanning, she’s given up the sun beds. “You always think it’s not going to happen to you. But unfortunately, melanoma, the increase in melanoma at the moment is astronomical. It’s rising so quickly. Yes some of it is probably to do with the sun and the ozone layer and all the other bits and pieces, but the stuff that you can stop yourself is the sun beds, and the use of sun beds and don’t use them.” the dangers of sun bed use are highlighted by experts writing in the lancet oncology. They state that in people who start using sun beds before the age of thirty-five, the risk of skin cancer increases by seventy-five percent. Cancer research u-k estimates that around one hundred melanoma deaths in the u-k each year are caused by sun bed use. Intensity of some type of u-v rays from tanning beds can be ten to fifteen times higher than that of the midday sun. The tanning shop using fingerprint readers and a computer program schedules to limit client