Hop onto TikTok and you’ll find lots of videos of young people โ mostly women โ fake baking under the glowing UV lights of a tanning bed. Seattle dermatologist Heather Rogers says this is an alarming trend that comes after years of decline in indoor tanning in the U.S.
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Aย new studyย in the journalย Science Advancesย reinforces just why they should worry.
Researchers found that tanning bed users were nearly three times as likely to develop melanoma โย the deadliest form of skin cancerย โ compared to people who’d never tanned indoors.
The researchers also performed genetic sequencing on normal skin cells from tanning bed users. Most were younger women … studies have shown that young women in their teens and 20s are the heaviest users of indoor tanning, says study co-authorย Hunter Shain, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco.
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“Women in their 30s and 40s had more mutations than people in their 70s and 80s from the general population,” says Shain …. “They somehow were able to cram in two lifetimes’ worth of UV damage in 30 years.”
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