Thursday, October 4, 2012

am i more likely to get skin cancer or lung cancer

am i more likely to get skin cancer or lung cancer?
i tan in a tanning bed, and never go long enough to burn, but i do go nearly every week day for a month or two, then stop for like 6 months. my friend smokes daily, and probably a pack a day on weekends. which one of use are more likely to end up with cancer? she's lectures me about tanning, but i don't know that what i'm doing is any worse than what she is.
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1 :
You're both going to get cancer eventually. Skin cancer is fairly common in people who tan though so I think you're probably going to get cancer first.
2 :
I think if you had someone close with cancer and could see for yourself what it does to a person, you would both quit doing something that is almost guaranteed to give cancer to you. It's not nice to see and very difficult to bear watching a loved one waste away from it.
3 :
she is more likely to get cancer. lung cancer is caused by arsenic in drinking water. there is no convincing evidence that there is anything that causes skin cancer. --world cancer research fund http://www.dietandcancerreport.org
4 :
Well...you're both playing with fire. Skin cancer is the more likely outcome from tanning. Smoking could bring on any number of health issues. Read the following to get a sobering look at tanning... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22293079-1243,00.html
5 :
Having just watched my husband die from lung cancer at the early age of 58 I'd tell your friend to give up NOW! By the time you get symptoms it's already too late and often too far advanced for anything other than palliative treatment. To see someone go from a relatively fit younger than his age looking man to a shrunken husk who looks ninety in just 4 months is devastating! It's also not just Lung Cancer she needs to worry about. Smoking also increases the risks of heart disease and several other types of cancer. As for yourself, I'd give up the sun bed just as quickly. Everyday is far too much and having time off wont help. You increase your risk every time you use one. It will also age you faster, and there isn't a product on the market that can repair the damage done by sunbeds. Of course if you don't mind looking like an old woman when you are only in your 30's........

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