“ (Users of UV tanning beds) have, in just a few decades, accumulated the damage caused by UV rays equivalent to two entire lifetimes." concludes a new study published in the journal Science Advances which analyzes the cellular changes caused by exposure to this artificial tanning method.
Tanning beds and cancer: the damage of two lifetimes concentrated in a few decades
December 21, 2025
By Camille Gaubert THE Subscribers
Users — primarily women — of UV tanning beds have a three times greater risk of melanoma (skin cancer). In their skin cells, their DNA is twice as mutated as in unexposed individuals twice their age.
Melanoma accounts for between 2 and 31% of all cancers.
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