{"id":227939,"date":"2025-12-28T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/study-sheds-new-light-on-tanning-bed-melanoma-risks"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:08:03","slug":"study-sheds-new-light-on-tanning-bed-melanoma-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/study-sheds-new-light-on-tanning-bed-melanoma-risks","title":{"rendered":"Study Sheds New Light on Tanning Bed Melanoma Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-sheds-new-light-on-tanning-bed-melanoma-risks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frequent tanning bed users may have up to an eight times greater risk for melanoma than people considered at high risk for melanoma who don\u2019t use tanning beds, according to a new study that also showed how tanning beds alter melanoma-linked DNA on the molecular level and damage areas of skin not usually exposed to the sun.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A case-control cohort study of patients considered at high risk for melanoma finds that tanning bed users have higher rates of melanoma and disease with significantly more mutations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent tanning bed users may have up to an eight times greater risk for melanoma than people considered at high risk for melanoma who don\u2019t use tanning beds, according to a new study that also showed how tanning beds alter melanoma-linked DNA on the molecular level and damage areas of skin not usually exposed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}