I need to know more about tanning and skin cancer..?!
Question: I'd like to try a tanning booth. I read that tanning can cause skin cancer. Understood. But I read that you are more likely to get skin cancer if you go frequently. What is frequently? Once? Twice a week? I need numbers. Also, anyone who tans/tanned and got skin cancer, how long before do you see any symptoms? Just trying to get educated---not trying to sound like a jerk.
Answers: I'd like to try a tanning booth. I read that tanning can cause skin cancer. Understood. But I read that you are more likely to get skin cancer if you go frequently. What is frequently? Once? Twice a week? I need numbers. Also, anyone who tans/tanned and got skin cancer, how long before do you see any symptoms? Just trying to get educated---not trying to sound like a jerk.
For any individual, one cannot know the risk. If you have any one of a number of genetic predispositions to cancer, particularly skin cancer, there may be no safe amount. Even without a genetic predisposition, risks of melanoma go up several-fold even after one sun burn (I know, you will be careful, heard that before ;>)).
There is no safe tanning bed exposure in my opinion. You already get ample radiation from our sun, don't need the "microwave" version in a tanning bed. Tanning spryas, creams, lotions are all very good these days, and don't carry the risk of skin cancer.
Why risk something you know you can't control, especially when there is a safer way? Just my $.02.
technically, you're not supposed to go more than twice a week and no more than 20 minutes, but few people go by that.
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