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By the way, doctor: Is a tanning bed safer than sunlight?

Publication: Harvard Women's Health Watch
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: By the way, doctor: Is a tanning bed safer than sunlight?(Report)

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By the way, doctor

Is a tanning bed safer than sunlight?

Q. Does tanning in a tanning bed cause less damage than natural sunlight?

A. It doesn't matter whether you get it from the sun or from artificial sources such as sun lamps and tanning beds * ultraviolet (UV) radiation is linked to skin cancers (including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma) and to other sorts of skin damage, particularly premature skin aging (photoaging).

UV radiation is one part of the spectrum of light that reaches the earth from the sun. At the UV end of the spectrum, the wavelengths are too short to be...

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