Are You Paying For Skin Cancer? The Clear and Present Danger Posed by Tanning Booths

In the dead of winter, or perhaps just in time for summer you may be tempted to go for a relaxing visit to a sun tanning salon. Far from being a healthy way to get a “base tan” or warm skin tone, tanning booths expose you to increased risk of skin cancer.

The statistics related to the increase cancer risk from tanning booths are both frightening and disturbing. If you visit a tanning bed and tan for 10 minutes between one and ten times in a calendar year, your risk of malignant melanoma rises 400 percent.

If you are an indoor tanning worshipper and tan between 10 and 20 times in a calendar year, your risk of developing malignant melanoma rise 800 percent.

“You’re basically buying yourself malignant melanoma by going to a tanning booth.” states Dr. Virginia Stevens, a doctor based in Seattle.

Dr Stevens rejects the notion of safe indoor tanning, stating that “when they say it’s a non-UVA, non-UVB, non-ultraviolet tanning, that’s just senseless. There aren’t any tanning rays not associated with developing cancer.”

Are You Paying For Skin Cancer? The Clear and Present Danger Posed by Tanning Booths