In a report released today, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin (APPGS) outline their recommendations to the Department of Health on extending sunbed regulation.
The report comes at a time when rates of malignant melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, are five times higher in the UK than they were in the 1970s. According to Cancer Research UK, the dramatic rise can be attributed partly to the rise of package holidays, the fashion for a ‘healthy’ tan, and a boom in sunbed use.
Increased rates of melanoma
Cancer Research states that sunbed use raises the chance of developing a melanoma by nearly 59 per cent in first-time users under the age of 35. According to an article published in the International Journal of Cancer in 2012, among those who had ever used a sunbed and were diagnosed between 18-29 years of age, three quarters (76 per cent) of melanomas were attributable to sunbed use. The
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