{"id":8902,"date":"2012-04-25T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2012-04-26T00:06:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:06:18","slug":"quote-of-the-week-uvs-disputed-melanoma-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/quote-of-the-week-uvs-disputed-melanoma-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Week:<br>UV\u2019s Disputed Melanoma Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cLess than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn\u2019t tan developed melanoma.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 from the article, \u201cTanning Beds: What Do The Numbers Really Mean\u201d by Dr. Ivan Oransky, editor of Reuters Health. Oransky pointed out that the data dermatologists say is evidence that tanning increases melanoma risk doesn\u2019t really show much of an increase \u2014 one more case per thousand subjects.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not all. What Oransky didn\u2019t know is that if you take sunbed users who use home tanning equipment or who have skin type I \u2014 who sometimes tan in home units or in other parts of the world \u2014 out of the data set there isn\u2019t any difference in risk.<\/p>\n<p>Oransky\u2019s article attempts to teach health reporters that there\u2019s a big difference between relative risk and absolute risk when discussing data, and that medical lobbyists sometimes use relative risk to make something seem riskier than it really is. In this case, dermatology lobbyists have attempted to allege that tanning at an early age increases melanoma risk by 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf reporters leave things at \u2018a 75 percent increase,\u2019 you\u2019re not giving your readers the most important information they need to judge for themselves,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo when you read a study that says something doubles the risk of some terrible disease, ask: Doubles from what to what?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthjournalism.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/tanning-beds-what-do-the-numbers-really-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To read his story click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLess than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn\u2019t tan developed melanoma.\u201d \u2014 from the article, \u201cTanning Beds: What Do The Numbers Really Mean\u201d by Dr. Ivan Oransky, editor of Reuters Health. Oransky pointed out that the data dermatologists say is evidence that tanning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","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>Quote of the Week: UV\u2019s Disputed Melanoma Link - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cLess than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn\u2019t tan developed melanoma.\u201d \u2014 from the article, \u201cTanning Beds: What Do The Numbers Really Mean\u201d by Dr. Ivan Oransky, editor of Reuters Health. Oransky pointed out that the data dermatologists say is evidence that tanning increases melanoma risk doesn\u2019t really show much of an increase \u2014 one more case per thousand subjects.\" \/>\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\/quote-of-the-week-uvs-disputed-melanoma-link\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Week: UV\u2019s Disputed Melanoma Link - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cLess than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn\u2019t tan developed melanoma.\u201d \u2014 from the article, \u201cTanning Beds: What Do The Numbers Really Mean\u201d by Dr. Ivan Oransky, editor of Reuters Health. 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