Tanning beds proven to cause cancer

An international cancer group has finally found definitive evidence linking tanning beds with cancer, reported Freep.com. Looking healthy and tan in the winter seasons could be riskier than people previously thought, as reflected in a recently delivered report. The report was a written analysis of 20 separate studies, and the panel concluded that people younger than 30 who use tanning beds have a 75 percent higher likelihood of developing melanoma than someone who doesn't.

In addition to this revelation, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, discovered that, in experiments with mice, subjects developed mutations when exposed to either UVA or UVB light. Previously, only the latter form of radiation, UVB, was thought to cause cancer. As Tanning beds emit only UVA light, they were long thought to be safe from cancer causing radiations, but now, UVA is classified as a Class One Carcinogen.