A recent research which just reviled that Sunbathing is more dangerous than driving a car, Also reveal that more people are dying from skin cancer every
year than lose their lives in traffic accidents.
And more women are dying from the disease than men, the
statistics show.
Experts blame the rise on women using tanning beds, which
studies have shown are hotter than the midday Mediterranean sun.
Dr Walayat Hussain, consultant dermatologist and head of
skin cancer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said: 'As a skin cankcer
specialist, the biggest worry is that the rates of skin cancer are on the
increase and the largest contributor to this is UV exposure.
'One of the greatest risk factors for those under the age of
35 for developing the most serious type of skin cancer, melanoma, is exposure
to these rays from UV tanning devices (sunbeds).
'People are now certainly more aware of the dangers but the
difficulty is that young people often think that they are 'bullet proof' when
it comes to getting a tan.
'However this mindset can have disastrous effects later in
life.'
There were 25 per cent more dea'ths from skin cancers than
road accidents in 2012, the latest year for which figures are available.
In the UK there are 2,148 annual skin cancer dea'ths from
melanomas, skin cancers that can spread to other organs in the body.
This is compared to the 1,713 people who died in road
traffic dea'ths in 2012.
An estimated 86 per cent of skin cancer cases are caused by
exposure to ultra violet radiation, according to Cancer Research UK research.
One indoor tanning session can increase a person's risk of
developing squamous cell carcinoma, abnormal growth of cells in squamous cells,
which are in the the upper layers of skin, by 67 per cent.
And it can increase their risk of developing basal cell carcinoma,
growths in the skin's basal cells, which line the deepest layer of the
epidermis, 29 per cent.
The research was carried out by spray tan company AURA
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