Sessions in tanning beds may only last five minutes - but researchers warn exposure to their ultraviolet radiation can literally age skin decades, as well as lead to deadly skin cancer.
While it’s long been understood that tanning bed users have a higher risk of skin cancer, a new study from collaborators at the University of California at San Francisco and Northwestern University found for the first time that young indoor tanners experience genetic changes that can lead to more mutations in their skin cells than people twice their age.
