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Old 02-06-2002, 09:21 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&u=/nm/20020206/sc_nm/health_tanning_dc_3

Tanning Beds, Lamps May Double Cancer Risk-Report

Wed Feb 6, 3:40 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tanning beds and tanning lamps may more than double the risk of cancer, and the effect is the worst in the young women most likely to use them, researchers said on Wednesday.


The researchers suggested use of the devices be limited to adults, and anyone who uses a tanning bed perhaps should be required to sign a consent form acknowledging the risks.

The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is one of several that strongly link the use of tanning lamps with skin cancer.

Dermatologists are not surprised by this -- in order for the skin to tan it has to be damaged. Tanning is the skin's response to the ultraviolet rays given off by the sun and tanning lamps and beds.

"Tanning is a response to injury," Dr. Steven Spencer, a Dartmouth medical school dermatologist who worked on the study, said in a telephone interview. Sunlight also causes wrinkles, age spots and thinning skin, as do sunlamps, he said.

In the United States, more than a million people develop two types of skin cancer, known as basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma, every year. Both are easily cured if caught early.

Spencer, Margaret Karagas and colleagues interviewed 603 people who had just been diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma and 293 with squamous cell carcinoma.

They also spoke to 540 people who did not have skin cancer. Everyone they spoke with was between 25 and 74 years old and lived in New Hampshire.

All of the nearly 1,500 volunteers were asked how often they sunbathed, whether they had ever had a sunburn, if they smoked or ever had radiation treatment and whether they used tanning lamps.

HIGHER RATES SHOWN

Those who said they had used a tanning lamp or sunbed were 2.5 times as likely to be in the squamous cell carcinoma group, and 1.5 times more likely to be in the basal cell carcinoma group, as those who said they had never used the devices, the Dartmouth team found.

"Our findings suggest that the use of tanning devices may contribute to the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancers," researchers wrote.

Spencer said there were not enough people in the group to check for melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, but he said it is likely tanning beds increase the risk of melanoma.

His team considered the possibility that people who used tanning beds may have sunbathed as well, thus raising their risk of skin cancer from the sun. So they accounted for sunbathing in the report.

But, they said, "no other factors, including summer outdoor exposure, sunbathing or sunburns, affected our results."

The very people who are warned to stay out of the sun were the ones most likely to use the tanning devices -- fair-skinned women who burned easily but who sunbathed anyway.

Spencer said those young women may mistakenly believe they are "laying down a base" that will protect them from the sun.

"The problem is that the kind of tan that a fair-skinned person gets is not very protective," he said.

As with sun exposure, the risk of cancer built over time. Those most likely to have developed skin cancer had first used the tanning devices decades earlier.

"Most tanning parlors use a certain wavelength of ultraviolet light called UVA that doesn't tend to burn you so much but it is harmful," Spencer said.

Researchers said tanning salons and sun lamps might need closer regulation -- now determined by states -- and suggested that minors be banned from using them.






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I hate when I see stuff like this... any idea how we can get a hold of this person???
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Yeah, Our local news station ran a segament tonight at 6pm. I had company come in and didn't get to watch it. But I have sent in a request via their website asking for a transcript so I may read it. Then I plan on slamming them with all the information I can gather to retract some of the misleading info they reported.
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Our local newsstation is doing a report on the exact same info. TONIGHT at 10:00pm Here is the info I pulled off of their web site prior to the broadcast:

Teenage Girls More Susceptible To Skin Cancer From Tanning Beds
Tanning beds more than double the risk of skin cancer. That's according to a national report released today. The hardest hit population, teenage and college-age girls, who use tanning beds the most. The study suggests the very people warned to stay out of the sun are the most likely to use tanning beds. Fair skinned women who burn easily. The study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds tanning bed users are two and a half times more likely to develop skin cancer, especially young women. Another group finds fault in the study, citing sixty percent of the subjects started tanning indoors before 1975.
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every year at this time the media pulls out the seasonal stories, and tanning is top of the list, get used to it, for every bad story or finding, there is a good one, but good news is boring.
YES I DO BELEIVE EVEYONE THAT TANS WILL DIE, BUT SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE! Its the circle of life.
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No doubt.

People drink and it is harmfu to their health and we still have ABC stores.

People smoke pot it is bad for them and it is illegal but yet it does have some health benefits -- dr.s prescribe it.

People smoke cigarettes - it is bad for you - it is talked about all the time - yet how many people still purchase them?

People go out in the sun everyday without the proper protection - it is harmful but they still do it...

I hate it when people only show one side of the information... trying to make something look bad -- I bet the person who wrote that tans
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The best thing to do is not post that cheap Inquirer type of news here on tan talk, you are just helping to spread misinformation, and half truths.
What is sad a is as salon owners are are not allowed to tell people about the positive effects of the sun.

Like the article in Today Tan, Feb 2002,
the study done by Dr. Michael Holick at the Boston University School of Medicine.
That uv light treats osteoporpsis. and that tanning bed and booth light is a good source of vitamin D.
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I am not posting it because I believe it or I am supporting their arguments Chippp. I am posting it because it's THERE! You can't pretend that people aren't saying bad stuff about tanning that isn't substantiated with actual research and facts!! I don't like it anymore than anyone else. But I'm not going to turn a blind eye and hope it goes away by ignoring it. You have to deal with this type of malicious reporting head on.
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I agree with Bronze on this one. I think that we should post things like this here. This allows all of us to band together and try to fight bad press as a group. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and right now as salon owners we need to become one giant squeaky wheel.
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I agree with the ladies. We cannot turn a blind eye, we cannot only look at the good. With the good, we have to take the bad. Our sweet revenge is that we are educated and we can rebut inforamtion like this with all the positive information that we as knowledgable people in this industry have! Like Chippp said however, these stories do come out every year at this time, I was waiting for this years flock of them.

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