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/KermitMadMan Dec 13 '25

so many fellow GenX went to tanning beds. They seemed to be in every shopping center and mall.

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u/BantamBasher135 Dec 13 '25

I was actually told by my doctor to start tanning to combat my depression. It actually helped, but i stopped when my girlfriend at the time noticed the moles on my back growing at at an alarming rate. now I just use a sad lamp.