PerezHilton tweeted this article today and once again we are hearing stories about how dangerous indoor tanning beds are. This is not a joke nor a myth and is leading to numerous cases of melanoma aka skin cancer! This article is about an 18 year-old girl who was preparing for the Miss Indiana pageant when she found skin cancer on her leg. She had been tanning indoors for years. Please read and keep an open mind. If you want tan skin, spray tan. It’s the safe alternative to the traditional fake ‘n bake.
WASHINGTON — Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there’s increasing scientific consensus that there’s no such thing as a safe tan, either.
This is a message that Katie Donnar, 18, dismissed until a year ago when, preparing for the Miss Indiana pageant, she discovered a growth on her leg – an early-stage melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer.
