Doubts have been widely missed. Here’s what the science on the risks of tanning lamps for the skin says
This is the period in which Libronated skin loversto present themselves already on the beach with a golden complexion, they turn to beauty centers and wellness centers to “color” thanks toUse of tanning lamps and beds. And that’s how we return punctually to talk about the risk of melanomaone of the most subtle tumors given its characteristic of not presenting symptoms if not in an advanced phase.
Do the tanning lamps hurt?
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It is true that Tanning lamps hurt? These are not hypotheses, but of certainties. The European Commission recalls that already in 2006 the scientific committee of consumer products had issued An opinion on the biological effects of ultraviolet rays (UVR) from solar beds: “It is widely shown that solar beds can cause skin melanomas, squamocellular carcinomas and, to a lesser extent, basal cell carcinomas, especially when the exposure starts from young people. Some scientific tests also indicate that they can cause eye melanoma (eye cancer)”.
Several case-case studies, cohort studies and metadata analysis, explain the European authorities, demonstrate uniquely that “those who use solar beds expose themselves to a greater risk of developing the skin melanoma“, And that the risk increases with the number and frequency of the sessions. Not only that. Studies confirm that the risk of developing a melanoma It is also higher for people who have exposed themselves to an age of less than 30 years.
Paolo Asciertopresident of the Melanoma Foundation and Director of the Melanoma Oncology Unit, Oncological Immunotherapy and innovative therapies of the Pascale Institute of Naples, provided some more statistics in his intervention at the talk Prevention in ten notes Organized by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with Rai: “Even just a tanning lamp increases the risk of melanoma by 75%. Tanning lamps must be treated as cigarette smoke. In Italy there is a law that fortunately prevents children from undergoing this practice, but it is not that at 18 years and one day the risk drops”.
WHO Alert on melanomas and tanning lamps
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The risk does not only concern those who have a clearer skin and are more easily subject to burns and burns, but but even those who have the darker skin And it is more inclined to tan without burning. Confirmation of the increase in risk of developing a melanoma if tanning lamps are used has also been confirmed by the data of the World Health Organization, according to which the solar lamps are responsible every year of about 10 thousand cases of melanoma and 450 thousand cases of skin tumors other than melanoma between the United States, Europe and Australia.
According to the WHO document, the people they have Used a solarium at least once At any phase of their life they have a risk of developing melanoma by 20% more Compared to those who have never used a bed and the first use of beds before the age of 35, the risk increases to develop melanoma by 59%.
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