Woman calls for sunbed ban after stage four cancer diagnosis, age 23
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/woman-calls-sunbed-ban-after-31744519
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Woman calls for sunbed ban after stage four cancer diagnosis, age 23
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/woman-calls-sunbed-ban-after-31744519
Posted by Forward-Answer-4407
34 Comments
Had she not heard for the calls for a ban – or, limited use of – sunbeds over the previous 23 years?
Ban everything that can or does cause a sickness or injury in somebody and there will not be much left
Let me just lay under some ultra UV light for a few minutes and then act surprised when it mangles my DNA.
Yawn.
“Please let me do whatever I want despite all indiciations that it’s a terrible idea and will hurt me.”
“Please save me from my own idiocy.”
Kinda have to pick one. I’m sorry but anyone who has been awake at any point in the last thirty or more years should be well aware of the risks posed.
> Despite repeated trips to A&E, Lily’s concerns were dismissed as anxiety, linked to her mental health history.
Why is this seemingly ALWAYS part of a woman’s quest to get basic healthcare. Oh your back and chest pain can’t actually be real after a recent cancer diagnosis and recovery, you just have anxiety 🤡
Given how little she used them, I’d think it’s more likely to be that she didn’t use sun cream properly.
I grew up in Australia and it’s shocking how many Brits don’t know how to use sunscreen.
23 is way too young for such a diagnosis, crazy how less than an hour in a sun bed can lead to lifelong cancer treatment.
Wish her well, and good on her for trying to enact change to protect others.
Sub category of a Darwin award seems like a thing she wants.
Has she not heard anyone call them “cancer beds”? Or seen any of the thousands of warnings not to use them?
Any evidence whatsoever that this was caused by the sunbed rather than that someone who has a history of using sunbeds is more likely to also be a sun worshiper and probably not do a good enough job with sun cream? She was travelling around south east Asia but the brief period on a sun bed gets all the blame?
I’m not suggesting sun beds are great. I wouldn’t use one. Any colour change of your skin like that is unhealthy whether it’s a natural tan or one from a sunbed. I just think the blame is being lobbed in the wrong place here.
I’ve been hearing about the dangers of sunbeds since my teens, and I’m nearly 40.
Anyone aged 23 who uses a sunbed in this day and age, is the same as anyone who begins smoking cigarettes. You’re aware of the dangers, but the naivety of youth has you believe it won’t happen to you.
Never mind the sunbeds (should be illegal) it’s the fact a lighy skinned person was fucking around in the sun without taking it seriously.
The article even says she went to get a “base tan” ? Wtf?!
This can be merely coincidence. I doubt 10 sunbed sessions gave her melanoma at 23.
My philosophy is: the government has a responsibility to protect its citizens from external dangers where possible, but not from the consequences of their own bad decisions. It’s very unfortunate for this woman and I have a lot of sympathy for her but a ban makes no sense. Exposure to UV light can give you skin cancer, everyone knows this. She got incredibly unlucky and now her life is ruined, but we shouldn’t be legislating based on extreme and tragic cases like this
If you’re gonna ban something every time someone has a bad experience, we will be left with nothing.
Using a sunbed when you’re going to a hot country and will get one naturally seems abit weird
As an Australian, I was so blown away to see sunbeds so commonly used when I moved to the UK
The diagnosis is very tragic but it’s more often than not sunburn in childhood that manifests via cancer years, or even a decade or two later, or even longer and a skin injury can bring it out earlier than it would’ve done by itself. There’s also other genetic factors that play a part in susceptibility, ie, you have blue eyes, your parents have brown eyes and your grandparents have blue eyes, I became an expert in the subject the hard way, hope she receives quick surgery and heals.
Maybe it is me but I am 33 and there have been calls to ban these since I was in sixth form. That was seventeen years ago, when this woman was six, so it is not like the risks of sunbed use and skin cancer are not known. If anything, their popularity was falling off a cliff by the early 00s because of this. It sounds harsh but this is like a smoker claiming they did not know that smoking causes lung cancer.
I can’t grasp why they weren’t banned years ago personally!
Using a sunbed to start your tan is even worse than using a sunbed to get a tan. You’re going on holiday just fucking wait a few days!
Skin cancer doesn’t work that way. For the symptoms to show in way mentioned in the story it would take years from the initial DNA damage to bleeding moles. It also don’t consider she used the sunbeds to get a “base tan” and doesn’t go into what other exposure yo the sun either from sunbathing or just being in the sun she’s had.
Yes, sunbeds increase the risk but to call for a ban because someone once used them and then got cancer when other factors could be a factor is odd.
At this point, using sunbeds is akin to Leapords eating your face.
**tanning is dangerous whether obtained from the sun or a tanning bed**. If you are white, you should aim to **avoid** getting a tan at all times.
This lady likely had a slightly elevated risk of lifetime melanoma, fair skin, early sunbed use, maybe even genetic vulnerability. But statistically, even with all that, her lifetime risk of melanoma was still around 3%. That means 97 out of 100 people with her history wouldn’t get it.
I do think they should be banned but I think it’s likely that she might have gotten sunburn as a child, just with her age and talks of a base tan (which could be something her family talks about) I also had skin cancer last year, young for it, I live in the north of Scotland, a fairly avid spf wearer but got sunburnt a lot as a child.
Education or lack thereof is the problem here. I obviously don’t have these problems cause I’m brown but if someone says I’m getting a tan to go on holiday you can automatically tell that they place way too much importance on their appearance & too little on their intellect level. We don’t need a ban on anything we need more focus on self esteem, education & common sense.
Same goes for processed foods full of sugar and salt causing hypertension and strokes
Its well documented and known that sunbed are not good for you but are fine in moderation.
There is so many myths about it. Someone told me that they use sunbeds to build a ‘base’ so their skin will know to tan rather than burn. They also talk about how people’s grandmas etc use to tell kids to use them.
Maybe there needs to be an information campaign.
Better to ban sunbeds for anyone under the age of 23 me thinks
At this point, the effects of sunbeds are well known. This is her own stupidity and ignorance.
And bacon can cause cancer and breathing can with all carcigens ban breathing… Never understood the logic, I got hurt so everyone else should be banned just let adults make up their own minds it’s not like there isn’t 100 warnings on them
> “As I’m very fair-skinned I’d always get burnt no matter what, even if I put it on”
That does not sound like she uses sunscreen correctly, or consistently.
But of course it is the sun bed that gave her cancer, not the UV index of 12 that you find there.