Considering tanning has been linked to such?
if you've had/have skin cancer would you tan?
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It's not the tanning that causes skin cancer. It's the sun burns that cause it. However, to answer your question, probably not.
Umm.... Tanning beds have been linked to cancer... How would you tan in the sun in the middle of winter?
Take a trip to a warmer climate.
Tanning beds can burn you. That's the correlation. :nod:
If a person starts out slowly, where the skin is not burnt, they don't cause cancer.
A few years back I went to the tanning salon and the girl working there told me I could go tanning everyday and it wouldn't hurt me. Well, 3 day's into the tanning I had big burn blister right between my boobs and haven't gone back since...:eek
when dad was diagnosed with his cancer in 1988 (Melanoma) he was told to stay out of the sun and if he was to go out to be protected with long sleeves, lotion, etc. He died two and a half years later when it was discovered that his cancer spread at such a quick rate that Chemotherapy would not have helped him. so I would say no to going out and getting a tan (then) but with technology the way it is you might do it but, why?
My dad has skin cancer, actually. Of all the types to get, he was very lucky in that he has a non-hereditary, non-lethal type. He has to have operations every now and then to remove growths before they get too large, but it could be far worse.
Since it's not hereditary, I still go out in the sun, but it has made me more aware of all my moles and any areas of skin that might be an issue - once in Ibiza I missed a spot on my hip with the suncream and I still have a darkened patch of skin there years later.
Since it's not hereditary, I still go out in the sun, but it has made me more aware of all my moles and any areas of skin that might be an issue - once in Ibiza I missed a spot on my hip with the suncream and I still have a darkened patch of skin there years later.
I'm holding out hope that Snooki will get skin cancer.
Tanning does cause skin cancer, as does sunburn. I won't forget the ad on TV we have here about skin cancer "Tanning is skin cells in trauma". Tanning can still give you moles as well, which can form into cancerous cells, and if they get into the bloodstream then it spreads. Different skin react differently to the sun (burn or tan) but doesn't mean one is safer than the other.
Tanning is the human bodies natural process of protecting itself from the dangers of sun.
Tanning in and of itself does not cause skin cancer. If that were true, every single person who ever worked outdoors would have skin cancer.
I am white as a ghost... So I would say no.
MIL on the other hand has had some small spots removed that turned out to be skin cancer and she still does the tanning bed thing.
MIL on the other hand has had some small spots removed that turned out to be skin cancer and she still does the tanning bed thing.
Not everyone who tans will get cancer, I did not imply that.
If anyone's skin changes colour due to sun exposure their skin is damaged in some way. It's the long-term exposure that makes it dangerous, like people who constantly wear no sunscreen to try and tan all the time. No surprise that a lot of people with skin cancer are people in their late teens or twenties. Tanning ages your skin more quicker, making it more susceptible to damage after.
If anyone's skin changes colour due to sun exposure their skin is damaged in some way. It's the long-term exposure that makes it dangerous, like people who constantly wear no sunscreen to try and tan all the time. No surprise that a lot of people with skin cancer are people in their late teens or twenties. Tanning ages your skin more quicker, making it more susceptible to damage after.
Reasonable to infer that you DID.
Yes, but it is illogical to assume that EVERY person will get cancer, because not every person tans themselves for long periods of time on a constant basis. A one off tan you won't get cancer, long term exposure you will, as stated in my post above which you ignored most of.
And, the way I specifically worded my statement implies that tanning CAN cause skin cancer, it won't for everybody though because it depends. If tanning causes cancer in everyone who tanned I would say "Tanning causes cancer".
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Which is EXACTLY what you said and WHAT I JUST QUOTED! LOL!
Or are you going to try and tell me that TANNING CAUSES CANCER and TANNING DOES CAUSE SKIN CANCER are not the same thing.
Yes there is a difference, and not absurd to think so. "Tanning does cause cancer" implies that the previous thinking was that tanning doesn't cause it. So that statement says that tanning CAN cause cancer/there's a chance/it will happen/it is possible. If I wanted to say that EVERYONE will get cancer from tanning, I will plain and simply say "Tanning causes cancer" (A will cause B). It's not hard to grasp.
Language in logic is critical, sorry if you don't get that, but posting a million laughing emoticons doesn't support your side of the argument either. There's no escaping the fact that tanning is bad for you, and why so many young people are getting skin cancer at a young age. As I stated in the second post, it is the long term exposure, so those who don't expose themselves in the sun unprotected for too long, may escape it.
What I said made perfect sense, you made an incorrect inference, it's okay to admit that.
What I said made perfect sense, you made an incorrect inference, it's okay to admit that.