Topic: Skin Cancer
The Indoor Tanning Association has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding health and safety claims about indoor tanning. Contrary to claims in the association's advertising, indoor tanning increases the risk of squamous cell and melanoma skin cancers, according to the FTC complaint. "The messages ...
Skin cancer, although it appears small can be quite deadly if it's not caught on time. As for how it grows, the cancer develops when DNA is damaged beyond repair. The cells that are damaged then develop and split at a rate that is. Uncontrollable when this damage happens in the skin and the cells grow and separate uncontrollably ...
Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either. This is a message that Katie Donnar ...
Under-18s in England and Wales could be banned from using sunbeds in tanning salons because of the risk of cancer under government-backed proposals announced Wednesday. Cancer Research UK says people who first use a sunbed under the age of 35 increase their risk of developing skin cancer later by 75 percent. Now ministers and MPs want to take action to ...
