Tanning Beds are "Carcinogenic to Humans" !!!

TANNING BEDS AS "CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS"

•  The most common type of cancer is skin cancer, and the number of people affected rises each year.

• 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.

• 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.

•  Tanning beds omit UV Rays. Period.

• 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. 

•  A person's melanoma risk rises 75 percent if he or she started using a tanning bed before age 30.