{"id":3392,"date":"2010-03-08T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T08:00:20","slug":"iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"IARC Risk Difference: 1 in 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-07-IARC-Risk-Difference-1-in-1000-copy1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3394\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2010-03-07 IARC Risk Difference 1 in 1000 copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-07-IARC-Risk-Difference-1-in-1000-copy1.jpg\" alt=\"2010-03-07 IARC Risk Difference 1 in 1000 copy\" width=\"285\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A Wilmington  News-Journal report published last week best-expressed the weakness of the data  used by a World Health Organization working group last summer in a controversial  report used to suggest that tanning is on par with cigarettes as a risk. The  data suggest that just isn\u2019t the case.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">A report published last summer by the  <span style=\"color: #016418;\">World Health Organization<\/span> summarized that \u2018there was  no consistent evidence for a dose-response relationship between indoor tanning  exposure and risk of melanoma.\u2019 The 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 Delaware\u2019s largest  newspaper reported.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">In other words, the difference in risk between  tanners and non-tanners in the report\u2019s strongest study was a 1 in 1,000  difference in overall risk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">Tanning opponents have attempted to massage  the data into suggesting that tanners who start tanning early have a 75 percent  higher risk of contracting melnoma \u2014 another statistic that independent health  analysts say is bogus.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">\u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014  whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that  reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading,\u201d Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz told  the News-Journal. Schwartz is the co-author of a book educating people on how to  properly analyze health statistics called Know Your Chances. &#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; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">To read the News Journal story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20100304\/NEWS\/3040341\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wilmington News-Journal report published last week best-expressed the weakness of the data used by a World Health Organization working group last summer in a controversial report used to suggest that tanning is on par with cigarettes as a risk. The data suggest that just isn\u2019t the case. \u201cA report published last summer by the [&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-3392","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>IARC Risk Difference: 1 in 1000 - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Wilmington News-Journal report published last week best-expressed the weakness of the data used by a World Health Organization working group last summer in a controversial report used to suggest that tanning is on par with cigarettes as a risk. 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Tanning opponents have attempted to massage the data into suggesting that tanners who start tanning early have a 75 percent higher risk of contracting melnoma \u2014 another statistic that independent health analysts say is bogus. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading,\u201d Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz told the News-Journal. Schwartz is the co-author of a book educating people on how to properly analyze health statistics called Know Your Chances. &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;  To read the News Journal story click here.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IARC Risk Difference: 1 in 1000 - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Wilmington News-Journal report published last week best-expressed the weakness of the data used by a World Health Organization working group last summer in a controversial report used to suggest that tanning is on par with cigarettes as a risk. The data suggest that just isn\u2019t the case. \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.\u2019 The 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 Delaware\u2019s largest newspaper reported. In other words, the difference in risk between tanners and non-tanners in the report\u2019s strongest study was a 1 in 1,000 difference in overall risk. Tanning opponents have attempted to massage the data into suggesting that tanners who start tanning early have a 75 percent higher risk of contracting melnoma \u2014 another statistic that independent health analysts say is bogus. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading,\u201d Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz told the News-Journal. 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Tanning opponents have attempted to massage the data into suggesting that tanners who start tanning early have a 75 percent higher risk of contracting melnoma \u2014 another statistic that independent health analysts say is bogus. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading,\u201d Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz told the News-Journal. 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The data suggest that just isn\u2019t the case. \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.\u2019 The report'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't tan developed melanoma. Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two,\u201d Delaware\u2019s largest newspaper reported. In other words, the difference in risk between tanners and non-tanners in the report\u2019s strongest study was a 1 in 1,000 difference in overall risk. Tanning opponents have attempted to massage the data into suggesting that tanners who start tanning early have a 75 percent higher risk of contracting melnoma \u2014 another statistic that independent health analysts say is bogus. \u201cThe overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading,\u201d Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz told the News-Journal. Schwartz is the co-author of a book educating people on how to properly analyze health statistics called Know Your Chances. \"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.\" To read the News Journal story click here.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-07-IARC-Risk-Difference-1-in-1000-copy1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-07-IARC-Risk-Difference-1-in-1000-copy1.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/iarc-risk-difference-1-in-1000\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IARC Risk Difference: 1 in 1000"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","name":"Smart Tan News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization","name":"Smart Tan","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","width":500,"height":164,"caption":"Smart Tan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b","name":"smarttan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"smarttan"},"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}