'Tougher actions' needed to reduce deadly toll of sunbeds
Every year, sunbeds cause more than one in twenty cases of the most serious type of skin cancer in Europe, French and Italian research has revealed.
The new study estimates that 5.4 per cent of the 63,942 new cases of melanoma skin cancer diagnosed in 2008 were linked to sunbed use.
Cancer Research UK said the study provides "the strongest evidence yet of the link between sunbed use and skin cancer."
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Reference
- Boniol, M., Autier, P., et al. (2012). Cutaneous melanoma attributable to sunbed use: systematic review and meta-analysis BMJ DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e4757
Keywords: sunbeds, skin cancer, melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma
24. 7. 2012 Cancer Research UK
