{"id":3389,"date":"2010-03-05T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/delaware-newspaper-uncovers-uv-truth\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T04:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T08:00:48","slug":"delaware-newspaper-uncovers-uv-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/delaware-newspaper-uncovers-uv-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware newspaper uncovers UV truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-05-Delaware-newspaper-uncovers-UV-truth-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3390\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2010-03-05 Delaware newspaper uncovers UV truth copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-05-Delaware-newspaper-uncovers-UV-truth-copy.jpg\" alt=\"2010-03-05 Delaware newspaper uncovers UV truth copy\" width=\"285\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A Delaware newspaper on Thursday reported what the rest of the world\u2019s media failed to correctly identify last summer: That the World Health Organization\u2019s report alleging a connection between tanning and melanoma really had very little bite beyond it\u2019s bark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cA report published last summer by the World Health Organization summarized that \u2018there was no consistent evidence for a dose-response relationship between indoor tanning exposure and risk of melanoma,\u201d The Delaware News Journal reported. \u201cThe report&#8217;s strongest study \u2014 which followed more than 100,000 women over eight years \u2014 found that less than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn&#8217;t tan developed melanoma. Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words: The difference between the tanners and the non-tanners was one-tenth-of-one percent in the strongest report alleging a connection, and the group at greatest risk was well below one percent overall risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cOpponents of indoor tanning have emphasized one statistic in the report to justify increased regulations, a conclusion that the risk of getting melanoma is 75 percent higher among people who begin using tanning salons under age 30, compared with those who don&#8217;t,\u201d the News Journal reported. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The News Journal even talked with Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, whose book \u201cKnow Your Chances\u201d attempts to help consumers understand health statistics and how misleading they can be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare,&#8221; Schwartz told The News Journal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20100304\/NEWS\/3040341\" target=\"_blank\">To read the article click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delaware newspaper on Thursday reported what the rest of the world\u2019s media failed to correctly identify last summer: That the World Health Organization\u2019s report alleging a connection between tanning and melanoma really had very little bite beyond it\u2019s bark. \u201cA report published last summer by the World Health Organization summarized that \u2018there was no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delaware newspaper uncovers UV truth - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Delaware newspaper on Thursday reported what the rest of the world\u2019s media failed to correctly identify last summer: That the World Health Organization\u2019s report alleging a connection between tanning and melanoma really had very little bite beyond it\u2019s bark. \u201cA report published last summer by the World Health Organization summarized that \u2018there was no consistent evidence for a dose-response relationship between indoor tanning exposure and risk of melanoma,\u201d The Delaware News Journal reported. \u201cThe report&#039;s strongest study \u2014 which followed more than 100,000 women over eight years \u2014 found that less than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn&#039;t tan developed melanoma. Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two.\u201d In other words: The difference between the tanners and the non-tanners was one-tenth-of-one percent in the strongest report alleging a connection, and the group at greatest risk was well below one percent overall risk. \u201cOpponents of indoor tanning have emphasized one statistic in the report to justify increased regulations, a conclusion that the risk of getting melanoma is 75 percent higher among people who begin using tanning salons under age 30, compared with those who don&#039;t,\u201d the News Journal reported. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent.\u201d The News Journal even talked with Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, whose book \u201cKnow Your Chances\u201d attempts to help consumers understand health statistics and how misleading they can be. &quot;Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare,&quot; Schwartz told The News Journal. 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Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two.\u201d In other words: The difference between the tanners and the non-tanners was one-tenth-of-one percent in the strongest report alleging a connection, and the group at greatest risk was well below one percent overall risk. \u201cOpponents of indoor tanning have emphasized one statistic in the report to justify increased regulations, a conclusion that the risk of getting melanoma is 75 percent higher among people who begin using tanning salons under age 30, compared with those who don&#039;t,\u201d the News Journal reported. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent.\u201d The News Journal even talked with Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, whose book \u201cKnow Your Chances\u201d attempts to help consumers understand health statistics and how misleading they can be. &quot;Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare,&quot; Schwartz told The News Journal. 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Schwartz, whose book \u201cKnow Your Chances\u201d attempts to help consumers understand health statistics and how misleading they can be. \"Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare,\" Schwartz told The News Journal. 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Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two.\u201d In other words: The difference between the tanners and the non-tanners was one-tenth-of-one percent in the strongest report alleging a connection, and the group at greatest risk was well below one percent overall risk. \u201cOpponents of indoor tanning have emphasized one statistic in the report to justify increased regulations, a conclusion that the risk of getting melanoma is 75 percent higher among people who begin using tanning salons under age 30, compared with those who don't,\u201d the News Journal reported. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent.\u201d The News Journal even talked with Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, whose book \u201cKnow Your Chances\u201d attempts to help consumers understand health statistics and how misleading they can be. \"Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare,\" Schwartz told The News Journal. 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