The Medical Association of Spain (WTO) recently published a report of the European Union warns that the use of beds and artificial tanning devices increased by 50% the chance of getting skin cancer.
The secretary general of the WTO, Juan José Rodríguez Sendín, said at a news conference that the report of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Products of the European Commission hopes that the people who use indoor tanning facilities are aware of the danger they have and recommended also reduce the natural sun exposure.
According to this specialist in the coming years may have more definitive reports on the relationship between the growth of melanoma (skin cancer) and people who use sunbeds for cosmetic purposes.
Sendín emphasized that the use of these devices and also the abuse of natural sun exposure may increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma and ocular melanoma.
The WTO stresses that it is more harmful in people with light skin and skin type I and II, which are the most difficult people have to tan as well as people with many freckles and moles, which are those that should refrain from using tanning devices.
Tanning devices increased 50% the chance of skin cancer
With respect to the beneficial effects of the sun, Sendín said that in countries with a climate similar to Spain there is enough sunlight throughout the year so it is not necessary to take the sun and walking only received vitamin D needed for the body .
For the secretary general of the WTO on behalf of tan is just a personal sense of beauty of each one, an aspect that can take its toll and that turns against those interested in the cosmetic effects of tanning, he remembered that the Sun is the main cause of skin aging.
The EU report notes that the melanoma is the leading cause of death from skin cancer and in 2000 was in Europe about 35,000 diagnosed cases, which killed 9,000 people