Tanning beds may pose higher skin cancer risk than we know ...

A new study, published today in The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, states that the main type of ultraviolet rays used in tanning beds, which are UVA 1 rays, may penetrate to a deep layer of skin that is most susceptible to the cancer-causing changes caused by UV rays.

In the study, volunteers exposed to UVA1 rays caused a type of lesion called thymine dimers on the deeper basal layers of the skin. Any cancer specialist or dermatologist will tell you this is a very serious outcome.

A myth that tanning beds continue to advertise is that tanning beds elevate Vitamin D, which is acquired naturally from sunlight.

For more on this news, go here?or listen to this podcast with Lynn Cornelius, MD, chief of dermatology at Washington University School of Medicine here.

-Kristin Hall

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