The Medical Minute: A darker side of tanning
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
This year, like every year, more than one-third of Americans will get at least one sunburn. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, the risk of melanoma -- the deadliest type of skin cancer -- more than doubles with just one severe sunburn in childhood or adolescence or from five such overexposures in a lifetime.