Sentences with phrase «of tanning devices»

«Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and its incidence is increasing, due in part to the increase in the use of tanning devices,» said study author Hugh Waters.

The researchers called for effective policies and strategies to reduce the use of tanning devices and their significant health and financial effects.

«We hope that our results will help in the efforts toward reducing the use of tanning devices,» he added.

The authors conclude that effective policies and strategies are needed to reduce the use of tanning devices, in order to mitigate their significant health and financial impacts.

They identified the total number of cases in the US in 2015 and worked out how many of these cases were likely due to the use of tanning devices, by using data on prevalence of use of tanning devices and previously published estimates of relative risk — the likelihood of having the disease for people who use tanning devices compared to people who don't.

«Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US and its incidence is increasing, due in part to the increase in the use of tanning devices,» said Dr. Waters.

Researchers estimate there were 263,000 U.S. cases of tanning device - related skin cancers in 2015.

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The new law prohibits the use of indoor tanning devices by children less than 17 years of age and requires teens between the ages of 17 and 18 to obtain parental consent.

A higher proportion of patients with early - onset BCC reported indoor tanning with a tanning lamp compared to controls, and this association was present for all types of indoor tanning devices.

Three - hundred and eighty - nine non-Hispanic white women ages 18 to 30 who had used an indoor tanning device one or more times in the prior 12 months completed online questionnaires; 46.7 percent of the participants were current college or university students.

The data they collected included the type of indoor tanning device used (sunlamps, tanning beds, or booths), and skin sensitivity to the sun and proportion of time spent outdoors in childhood.

These productivity losses amounted to US $ 127 billion over the lifetime of the people who had the conditions attributable do tanning devices in 2015.

Despite this, the proportion of people in the US who use indoor tanning devices has risen over the last 20 years; an estimated 30 million people now use the devices at least once a year, in the approximately 25,000 tanning salons across the country.

While indoor tanning has decreased among high school students, about 20 percent of females engaged in indoor tanning at least once during 2013 and about 10 percent of girls frequently engaged in the practice by using an indoor tanning device 10 or more times during the year, according to a research letter published online by JAMA Dermatology.

California, New York, Vermont and Springfield and Chicago, Ill. have passed laws prohibiting the use of indoor tanning devices by minors.

«Through national media coverage and reality television, attention has been drawn to the use of indoor tanning devices in New Jersey.

Those warnings will state tanners face an amplified risk of skin cancer that increases with repeated sunlamp use, and the devices should not be used by individuals with open wounds or a family history of skin cancer.

«By restricting the use of indoor tanning devices among minors, we could potentially save thousands of lives.»

Just a few months earlier, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin approved a bill prohibiting the use of ultraviolet (UV) tanning beds or other devices by those under 18.

«Tanning devices cause hundreds of thousands of people to suffer a number of different diseases, costing billions of dollars and, most importantly, people's lives,» Waters said in a journal news release.

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