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Early Use of Tanning Beds and Melanoma Are Connected, Study

January 28, 2016 Posted by Amelia Donovan

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Only less than 2 percent of skin cancer is accounted for by melanoma, which makes it less common. But because it’s deadlier than other forms of skin cancer, melanoma kills one person per hour.

A new study has found exactly which individuals are at the highest risk of developing the disease. According to the team of DeAnn Lazovich from the University of Minnesota, women who used tanning beds during their teen years are more likely to develop melanoma early on.

The study, which involved adults aged 25 to 49 years old, was aimed at assessing the possible connection between the use of tanning beds and melanoma cases in both men and women who were younger than 50 years of age.

It was found that women who used tanning beds during teenage years their 20s had increased their risk of deadly skin cancer with up to six times, compared with the participants who did not use indoor tanning.

For the research, Lazovich’s team gathered data on 681 patients who had been diagnosed with skin cancer. Their medical records were then compared with those of a control group.

Female melanoma patients younger than 40 years old were found to have started indoor tanning at the early age of 16. Those diagnosed with the illness sometime between 40 and 49 years old, on the other hand, started indoor tanning at the average age of 25 years old.

Moreover, researchers also noted that women who received a melanoma diagnosis at an earlier age were found to have undergone more tanning sessions than those who received the diagnosis at an older age.

The younger melanoma patients had 100 tanning sessions on average, while those diagnosed with the disease after the age of 40 years old averaged at 40 sessions.

This study’s findings are supported by a proposal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban indoor tanning to customers younger than 18 years old, due to the connection between the use of sunbeds and development of skin cancer.

Indoor tanning has also been declared a human carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009. The authors of the study featured in the journal JAMA Dermatology, cited the necessity of reducing indoor tanning in light of the increasing prevalence of melanoma cases.

They required more efforts than just banning minors from accessing indoor tanning in order to stop or at least curb the “melanoma epidemic.” Otherwise, indoor tanning is likely to continue undisturbed, especially among young women.
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About Amelia Donovan

Amelia got her feet wet in the captivating world of journalism while still in college, working as the editor of the university’s newspaper. She minored in Journalism and Mass Communication before receiving a scholarship at a prestigious German university. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Amelia went on to pursue her biggest passions: journalism and science. She enjoys being up to date with any cutting-edge scientific advancements and her minor in biology allowed Amelia to accurately cover particularly interesting medical topics.

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