Tanning Beds Cause Skin Cancer

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Tanning Beds Cause Skin Cancer

Strong evidence now links tanning beds to melanoma, a deadly form of

skin

cancer that afflicts nearly 69,000 Americans a year.

People who have ever used tanning machines were 74% more likely to

develop melanoma than others, according to a study of 2,268 patients

reported

today in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Those who tanned the most--for 10 years or more--had more than twice the

risk of melanoma compared with people who never used tanning beds, says

co-author Weinstock of Brown University School of Medicine. Those

risks didn't change when researchers accounted for age, sex, income,

family

history, education, skin and eye color, freckles, moles, sunscreen use

or time

in the sun.

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