Study: Young Indoor Tanning Bed Users Show Genetic Damage Linked to Skin Cancer Risk
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Summary
A groundbreaking study led by UC San Francisco and Northwestern University reveals that young indoor tanning bed users experience significant genetic damage to their skin cells, accumulating more mutations than people twice their age. The research, published in Science Advances, shows that artificial ultraviolet radiation from tanning beds causes cellular mutations that serve as seeds for future cancers, including deadly melanoma. This is the first time researchers have demonstrated that young tanners undergo genetic changes leading to increased mutation burden in their skin cells.
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The skin of tanning bed users was riddled with the seeds of cancer — cells with mutations that can be the seeds of future cancers, including highly deadly melanoma.
Research reveals that artificial sources of ultraviolet radiation cause cellular mutations that can be the seeds of future cancers, including highly deadly melanoma.
The study, which was led by UC San Francisco and Northwestern University, appears Dec. 12 in Science Advances.
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