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Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/12/2010 8:18:29 PM

Vendaval

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If you or someone you know uses tanning beds you might want to read this story. A young woman dead at age 26 from melanoma likely caused by tanning both outdoors and in tanning beds.

A Death by Suntan at Age 26

For years, Glenna Kohl pursued a tan, both in the sun and in tanning beds — which new research shows are far deadlier than once thought. By 22, she was battling the most lethal form of skin cancer.

BY STEPHANIE BOOTH

"Yet tanning is connected to skin cancer. Studies have shown that exposure to UV rays can trigger changes to the DNA in skin cells that may lead to cancerous growths. The two most common types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, are almost always linked to UV exposure. And 90 percent of cases of the less common but more deadly form, melanoma, also are attributed to UV exposure, says Darrell S. Rigel, MD, a professor of clinical dermatology at New York University.

Sun exposure sans sunscreen is a big culprit. But indoor-tanning beds also can result in cancer. A major report released this past August reclassified tanning beds as "carcinogenic to humans." And a person's melanoma risk rises 75 percent if he or she started using a tanning bed before age 30.

Glenna's diagnosis was, sadly, part of a trend: Melanoma is the second most frequently reported cancer in women in their 20s, and it's third only to breast and thyroid cancers for women in their 30s, reports the National Cancer Institute. "Melanoma is one of the few forms of cancer that's on the rise," says Dr. Rigel. The tan look so desired by young women may explain why 20- and 30-somethings are diagnosed with the disease at alarming rates, he adds."

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/advice/tips/skin-cancer-death-1009

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/12/2010 8:24:36 PM

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Moon Tanning is much safer!

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/13/2010 1:13:02 AM

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This was another young woman who died from a melanoma after using tanning beds. Just before her death she made a number of adverts and gave interviews to warn people of the risks

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/16/2010 4:54:23 AM

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Good morning!
I hate tanning beds, it cringes me to see them so full of people "waiting to crisp themselves". and I do not understand it b/c I am dark skinned and have always been pikced on for it. what's worse is that out here-in Maine-there is a whole franchise of about 100 tanning salons and they have begun advertising on the tv about "family specials and packages". At what point do we as parents becomes blinded by beauty and let our kids take that risk of cancer? Not mine. Take care and good luck.
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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/16/2010 7:18:32 AM

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I have NEVER understood tanning. I remember they used to sell it as "saver than laying out". Bull.

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/16/2010 8:46:05 AM

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Like everything else, as to be used with moderation, like solar tanning...

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/16/2010 9:15:46 AM

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I had a patient the other day that obviously used a tanning bed, she was a year younger than me and her wrinkles were absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep , a tan looks great in your twentys, but by the time you are 45 the wrinkles are starting to show, and you look older than you are - and its all downhill from there!
Tans - a bad idea!

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/16/2010 9:46:58 AM

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I never understood why people like it and go for it but that can also have to do with the fact that I am a very light skin type, I know that for me to get tanned I usually need a good sunburn...which put me off. I had a severe sunburn when I was 15 and I made damn sure that that was my last one. Sometimes I meet people who make their comments about how light my skin is but quite frankly, better light and healthy then tanned and potentially deadly...apart from that it also ages your skin big times. Sometimes people say I do look younger...whilst I don't really know if that is currently the case I do know that I don't use make up, don't smoke and very rarely drink (during some years not even a drop of alcohol thats how rarely I do drink alcohol) and don't do sun bathing...and all of such factors do age the skin.

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/17/2010 10:42:03 PM

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Nothing quite as sexy as skin like leather and deep,deep wrinkles!

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/18/2010 11:51:36 AM

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Ive had to shell out a ton more money than I would have liked for spray tanning, and no matter how expensive I go, it STILL looks like spray tanning, but its worth it to me. The only other option for me is a tanning bed...and yes...I do still use one, unfortunantly its one of those necessary evils for me...but while other chicks around me are doing it daily, often twice a day, I use it once a week to keep my spray from being too orange a base...and I ONLY do it certain times a year. Unfortunantly I know the risks and choose to keep my career instead...

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/18/2010 12:09:55 PM

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Pardon my ignorance here, but what kind of a career demands that you be tanned?

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/18/2010 12:32:23 PM

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/18/2010 7:55:11 PM

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When I was growing up, it was baby oil and aluminum foil at the beach all the time.
When I got married I went tanning every day for two weeks before my wedding. I was so dark that the only thing that showed up in most of the pictures of me were teeth and dress!

I'm fairly certain that I will pay for all that early damage at some point, but I'm crossing my fingers I skate by.
I'm pretty much pasty white now. I prefer being darker, but I also enjoy living. Not too hard of a choice.

*btw Ghita, have I mentioned how FUCKING HOT you look?*

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/18/2010 8:04:20 PM

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Same!

I heard a story on NPR recently, however, refuting that getting sun is dangerous. I'll try to find it, but the point was that burning was bad but we slowly should get a base tan and not wear sunscreen. He said people are having issues with vitamin D deficiency which shouldn't happen with a healthy amount of sun.

[Edit to add he cited studies that showed skin cancers are no more prevalent in the tan spots than in the not tan spots.]

He also said drinking 8 glasses of water was bunk.

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/18/2010 9:23:36 PM

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I am never going to regret tanning or going in a tanning bed because I never did it, I am 43 and I see my friends that are my age that did tan and they look like freaking raisinets. Not hot. I love my skin and my paleness. It beats orange-y fake tans or wrinkles anyday.

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RE: Tanning beds and skin cancer - 5/19/2010 11:34:00 AM

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I think drinking 8 glasses of water is bunk too...thats no where NEAR enough. If I dont get at least a gallon to a gallon and a half a day I feel miserable the next day.

But the vit D thing is true. Its amazing how many kids are suffering from a deficiancy that could be fixed by 20 minutes a day outside. TWENTY! thats all...people are so afraid to let their kids outside anymore, they either live in neighborhoods they dont feel safe in, or they are terrified of the sun, or their kids are just lazy whatevers that would prefer to be in front of a video game. My boys are outside from 7am until about 7pm. I have to DRAG them inside at night to eat dinner and take a bath. Of course, they are also slathered in sunscreen...

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