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Indoor tanning beds can cause non-melanoma skin cancer — and the risk is greater the earlier one starts tanning, according to a new analysis led by UCSF. Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH Indoor tanning is ...

Having to tell young women they have metastatic melanoma, an advanced form of skin cancer, is one of the lamentable parts of Dr. Jason Chesney's job. "If it spreads inside you and becomes stage IV ...

There is no such thing as a safe tanning bed, according to the Mayo Clinic. iStock Dear Mayo Clinic: My daughter and her friends are all talking about going to a tanning bed. I suggested to my ...

Though people often post selfies on social media to show off their looks, one Iowa woman is making headlines for a more unusual cosmetic story. On March 6, Mallory Lubbock took to Facebook to ...

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Tanning beds can ring up a steep bill — a whopping $343 million each year in medical costs in the US alone. Indoor tanning has long been tied to skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the US.

The first time I used a tanning bed was in high school. I was probably 17 or 18. I wanted a tan before prom or some kind of dance. I remember my mom took my sister and me to the tanning salon, and ...

As a teen, Casie VanderLind had a winter after-school routine: She would work out, go to cheerleading practice, and, two to four times a week, head home to use the tanning bed in her family’s basement ...

According to the American Academy of Dermatology, almost 70 percent of people who use tanning salons are Caucasian girls and young women. Because of that, rates of melanoma is increasing faster in ...