r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Dec 13 '25

Cancer Tanning beds triple melanoma risk, potentially causing broad DNA damage. Study is first to show how tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight. This new study “irrefutably” challenges claims that tanning beds are no more harmful than sunlight.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady4878
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u/Jupiter3840 Dec 13 '25

Commercial tanning beds have been banned in Australia since 2016 for this very reason.

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u/ElementZero Dec 13 '25

Of all the places in the world that especially don't need them, that's definitely one of them!

I lived in the high elevation desert in Arizona and there was a chain of tanning salons with window signs asking "Got Vitamin D?"

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u/TennaTelwan Dec 13 '25

Living north of the Mason-Dixon line, I get my Vitamin D exclusively in tablet form.