‘As founder of the Melanoma Network of Canada, we see the ongoing impact of tanning beds every day in this country. It is shameful that they are allowed to operate. While we have legislation restricting youth access under 18 in most provinces, these machines are still cancer-causing and devastating for the whole user population. Tanning beds need to go. And we also need to wake up to the issue of basal and squamous carcinoma. For too long these types of cancers have been dismissed because of low death rates. This fails to take into account the impact on patients of a lifetime of potential treatment, the cost to the system and the trauma caused by disfigurement.’
Wake up Canadians and take UV exposure seriously.
Annette Cyr, Chair MNC
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