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Younger tanners getting older cancers
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by Kaitlin | March 5, 2007 at 09:30 am
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Britain's tanning industry--which is largely unregulated--is allowing for younger and younger users to have access to coin-operated tanning salons without supervision. This unfettered access is leading to a huge increase in non-melanoma skin cancers in Britain's youth; cancers formerly seen only in older people. It's not just in Britain, however, where the danger of tanning has yet to be fully addressed. Canada, for example, only states that, "Children under 16 years of age should not use tanning equipment. Depending on provincial or territorial regulations, a minor may require written parental consent." There are currently no laws, here or in Britain, against tanning for minors. The dermatologist mentioned in this story is seeking to outlaw tanning for younger tanners in Britain.
The popularity of unregulated tanning salons, many of which are unstaffed, are being linked with the rise.But a leading sun bed chain denied that under-age customers were using their coin operated salons.
Dr Blackford said she was seeing more people with the non melanoma types of skin cancer which used to be predominantly a problem in elderly people.
"We're seeing people in their 30s which is definitely a bad sign," she says on Eye on Wales, Radio Wales' current affairs programme, broadcast on Monday.
We have not found evidence of under age customers using Consol studios and if we for a minute thought that was the case we would be sharing Sian James' concern
Sam Kirby, Consol Suncenter
"When you've got skin cancer at that age then you are going to go on getting more and more of them unfortunately.
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at 10:19 on March 5th, 2007
This is scary, especially because young people tend to be more cavalier about things like this.
at 10:28 on March 5th, 2007
I agree with VR that this is an important story, and it is well presented. I do wonder tho, why it is that younger persons are more susceptible to skin cancers, unless it is a matter of accumulated danger over time? Do their cells divide fasterand thus are more prone to division errors and growth gene errors, two things that cause the unregulated growth that we call cancer? It is amazing that the various associations of professionals involved in this are not more active, or more visible.