Although its use is increasingly widespread, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has decided to raise to the maximum level the risk to human health from the use of ultraviolet light booths.
The agency has included these devices in a risk category and qualifies as “carcinogenic to humans” according to a special issue of the British journal “The Lancet Oncology.
So far, the use of these cabins was part of group 2, which called it “possibly carcinogenic“.
A group of scientists from the IARC, led by Dr. Fatiha El Ghissassi ensures that emit UV radiation that these devices involves a large risk for genetic mutation that causes melanoma, a skin tumor prognosis and accounts for 75 percent of deaths that occur each year as a result of skin cancer.
The researchers warn that, contrary to what one thinks, all UV radiation – whether UVA, UVB and UVC, are equally dangerous and add to the risk of melanoma increases by 75% when the use of cabs Ultraviolet begins before age 30.
In addition to cutaneous melanoma, IARC experts warn that seek quick tan in these devices can cause ocular tumors.
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