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May 7, 2008

In May’s podcast we discover the dangers of sunbeds, find out how drugs are made available for people with cancer, and look forward to Cancer Research UK’s garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Simply visit the podcast homepage and click on the player to hear the show, or click the player below:

Click this link to directly download the May podcast (17Mb)

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Kat

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Posted by Kat Arney

Everything under the sunbeds

May 7, 2008

Sunbeds increase the risk of skin cancerLast month, Cancer Research UK alerted the UK to the cancer risk posed by sunbeds. The national media lapped the story up and a series of related events conspired to produce a perfect storm of media coverage.

A mother revealed that her son had acquired severe burns during an unsupervised sunbed session, TV presenter Denise van Outen blamed facial scars on her earlier sunbed use and Which? magazine published a survey which showed that 170,000 under-16s in the UK have used a sunbed, including children as young as eight.

Shortly after, England’s Health and Safety Executive put forward revised proposals for guidelines that will restrict under-18s from using sunbeds.

Amid all this media interest, it’s easy to get carried away and forget that all of this attention is based on messages that are backed by sound scientific evidence. Let’s take a look at it.

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Posted by Ed Yong