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Keeping Teens Off Tanning Beds Saves Lives and Dollars
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/q-EmfkJ2plw
Barring US teens 14 to 17 years of age from using indoor tanning facilities would prevent more than 18,401 melanoma cases and save $205 million healthcare dollars. This from a microsimulation study just published in the journal Cancer.
Banning tanning bed use for the 17.1 million US minors would prevent 15,101 primary melanoma cases and 3,299 potentially deadly recurrences over their lifetimes. Exposure to UV radiation is most dangerous for the young, and a 2009 survey showed that 32% of high school students used a tanning bed at least once in the preceding year.
Seven European countries ban teen tanning altogether. American teens should avoid it themselves.
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cncr.33499
https://www.aad.org/media/stats-indoor-tanning
#tanning #melanoma
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AM
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/q-EmfkJ2plw
Barring US teens 14 to 17 years of age from using indoor tanning facilities would prevent more than 18,401 melanoma cases and save $205 million healthcare dollars. This from a microsimulation study just published in the journal Cancer.
Banning tanning bed use for the 17.1 million US minors would prevent 15,101 primary melanoma cases and 3,299 potentially deadly recurrences over their lifetimes. Exposure to UV radiation is most dangerous for the young, and a 2009 survey showed that 32% of high school students used a tanning bed at least once in the preceding year.
Seven European countries ban teen tanning altogether. American teens should avoid it themselves.
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cncr.33499
https://www.aad.org/media/stats-indoor-tanning
#tanning #melanoma