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Precision Cuts and Tanning, located at 609 E. 13th Ave., is one store that has recently experienced an increase in customers.
Skin cancer should concern
both 'fake’ and real tanners
■ An estimated 9,600
Americans will die of
exposure-related skin
cancers in the year 2000
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
With spring break approaching,
many University students are
thwarting the still-drizzly Oregon
weather and getting a head start
on their summer tans.
Business at local tanning salons
is booming, with salon owners re
porting as many as 200 customers
each day.
“From 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. every
single day, we are completely
booked,” said Sunsational Tan
ning & Beauty Salon owner De
Lynn Tucke.
The recent increased business
at tanning salons is indicative of
our culture’s long-standing rever
ence for sun-bronzed skin and de
rision of pale skin, owners said,
but many doctors worry that
Americans’ love of the tan is be
coming a health hazard.
“People are going on vacations,
they want to put their shorts on
and they don’t want to look pasty
white,” said Tammi Cantwell, a
Tanners’ Paradise manager who
also tans regularly. “Obviously,
you look healthier when you’re
tan.”
Dr. James Kitterman, a special
ist in diseases of the skin, said the
opposite is true, however. Regular
tanning is far from healthy, he
said.
Excessive exposure to ultravio
let rays, be it from the sun or a
tanning bed, has been found to
weaken the immune system, pre
maturely age the skin and cause
skin cancer.
The American Cancer Society
projects 1.3 million new cases of
basal cell or squamous cell skin
cancer to develop this year. Both
forms of cancer are rarely lethal
and highly curable when detect
ed and treated early. But the ACS
predicts 9,600 Americans will die
in the year 2000 from skin cancer,
mostly from melanoma cancer.
Though the causes of
melanoma are still largely un
known, Kitterman said the “vast
majority” of skin cancer cases are
caused by excessive sun expo
sure.
“Salon owners espouse that
regular tanning is non-damaging
and doesn’t lead to cancer and ag
ing,” Kitterman said. “But that’s
not the case. Tanning is definitely
not a safe thing to do.”
Tracy Kimball, salon coordina
tor at Precision Cuts & Tanning,
disagreed, saying her business in
forms all customers of the risks of
tanning and reserves the right to
deny service to customers who
are obviously sunburned.
Sunsational Tanning & Beauty
Salon also takes precautions by
not allowing customers to tan
longer than ten minutes each ses
sion and no more often than every
other day. Oregon law requires
sessions not exceed 20 minutes.
Both Kimball and Tucker said
their employees take an annual
course on tanning safety. The
course teaches salon employees
to identify skin types, recom
mend proper lotions, use appro
priate sun bulbs and operate ac
cording to law.
But such courses are not re
quired and constitute an addi
tional expense, about $150 for
each employee, that some tanning
salons choose not to accept.
“It’s not cheap for me to do, but
it’s well worth my while to have
our girls educated,” Tucker said.
“A little bit of prevention is better
than reparation at the end.”
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