Tanning Trumps Skin Cancer Fears for Young Adults

Young adults prefer to indulge in tanning skin cancer today than worry about tomorrow. Tanning is the norm in some circles. It's expected. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, melanoma is the most deadly type of skin cancer, but this is not to scare young tanning booths temptation.

Exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun and indoor tanning equipment increases the risk of skin cancer. Indoor tanning before the age of 35 engaged in an increased risk of melanoma by 75%. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. National Cancer Institute study found recently:

Young adults common indoor tanning, indoor tanning white women, aged 18-21 years (32%) and 22-25 years (30%) the highest proportion. The report evaluates data from the National Health Interview Survey cancer control supplement.

The highest prevalence of indoor tanning reported living in the Midwest (44%), and those 22-25 years of age in the South years (36%), aged white women between the ages of 18-21.

In the 18-21 year-old white woman was indoor tanning, occurred in the past year, an average of 28 passengers.

In the indoor tanning white adults who reported that 58% of women and 40% of men in the past year with more than 10 times.

Despite the protective measures, 50% of people aged 18 to 29 years old in the past year at least one sunburn.

"Needs more public health efforts, including providing a relaxing setting sun shade, sun protection and sunburn prevention awareness of the importance to improve in order to reduce the burden of skin cancer," said Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, disease prevention and Control Center Division Director, cancer Prevention and Control. "We must accelerate our efforts on indoor tanning dangerous, because this generation ages, prevent melanin education of young people."