Tanning can cause skin cancer?

More and more white skinned women are wanting to have sun-kissed tone all year round. Salons offering indoor tanning are now all over. Are these tanning procedures and too much exposure to UV rays the main causes of skin cancer among women, specifically the young ones?

The deadliest type of skin cancer called Melanoma, results in about 8,000 deaths a year, according to the National Cancer Institute. But three factors have doctors alarmed: The rates of this cancer are rising; it has become the most common cancer for young people; and many of the cases result from the preventable, but addictive, behavior of indoor sun-tanning.

“In the last few decades, it’s certainly been on the rise. And some people think that may be a result of behavior, and UV exposure,” said Jennifer Stein, an assistant professor of dermatology at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. “This is a very serious cancer, and this is a behavior that’s preventable.” she added.

In a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, frequent tanning bed users proved three times more likely to develop melanoma than non-users, and subjects that used tanning beds for any amount of time showed a 74-percent higher rate of melanoma than non-users, according to research published online May 27 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

So, with all these, would you still want to remain hot and tan? love your color girl. Resist indoor tanning and out-door activities. Protect your skin, protect you life.