ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2017
Indoor Tanning and Melanoma Risk: Long-Term Evidence From a Prospective Population-Based Cohort Study.
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- A systematic review of microsimulation models for skin cancer.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Pooled it
- Melanoma incidence in Norway, 1980-2024: a cohort study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2026Article
- Molecular effects of indoor tanning.Science advances · 2025Article
- Severe Sunburns and Sunbed Use Risk with Cutaneous Melanoma: A Case-Control Study in Lithuania.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Indoor tanning is associated with substance use behaviors among adolescents.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Incidence and mortality trends of primary cutaneous melanoma: A 50-year Rochester Epidemiologic Project study.JAAD international · 2024Article
- Melanoma crash course.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2024Article
- Recent-Onset Melanoma and the Implications of the Excessive Use of Tanning Devices-Case Report and Review of the Literature.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Analysis of the Stockholm Public Health Cohort: Exploring How Ultraviolet Radiation and Other Factors Associate with Skin Cancer.Journal of skin cancer · 2024Article
- Sustained pigmentation causes DNA damage and invokes translesion polymerase Polκ for repair in melanocytes.Nucleic acids research · 2023Article
- [S3 guideline on skin cancer prevention: evaluation and updating procedure].Dermatologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Review: The Key Factors to Melanomagenesis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- An Epidemiological Update on Indoor Tanning and the Risk of Skin Cancers.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Review
- Pre-diagnostic DNA methylation in blood leucocytes in cutaneous melanoma; a nested case-control study within the Norwegian Women and Cancer cohort.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Life-Course Trajectories of Physical Activity and Melanoma Risk in a Large Cohort of Norwegian Women.Clinical epidemiology · 2022Article
- Cutaneous malignant melanoma incidence is strongly associated with European depigmented skin type regardless of ambient ultraviolet radiation levels: evidence from Worldwide population-based data.AIMS public health · 2022Article
- Malignant melanoma: evolving practice management in an era of increasingly effective systemic therapies.Current problems in surgery · 2022Review
- Sunscreens With High Versus Low Sun Protection Factor and Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Risk: A Population-Based Cohort Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Magnetic nanoparticles in theranostics of malignant melanoma.EJNMMI research · 2021Review
- Enhancing Therapeutic Approaches for Melanoma Patients Targeting Epigenetic Modifiers.Cancers · 2021Review
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Abstract
Indoor tanning is associated with increased risk of melanoma, but most evidence comes from case-control studies. Using data from the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study, a large prospective cohort study, we investigated the associations of age at initiation of indoor tanning, duration of tanning-device use, and dose response with melanoma risk and examined the role of indoor tanning in age at melanoma diagnosis. We used Poisson regression to estimate relative risks and 95% confidence intervals for the relationship of indoor tanning to melanoma risk and linear regression to examine age of indoor tanning initiation in relation to age at diagnosis. During follow-up of 141,045 women (1991-2012; mean duration follow-up = 13.7 years), 861 women were diagnosed with melanoma. Melanoma risk increased with increasing cumulative number of tanning sessions (for highest tertile of use vs. never use, adjusted relative risk = 1.32, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08, 1.63); P-trend = 0.006. Age at initiation <30 years was associated with a higher risk in comparison with never use (adjusted relative risk = 1.31, 95% CI: 1.07, 1.59). Moreover, women who started indoor tanning prior to 30 years of age were 2.2 years (95% CI: 0.9, 3.4) younger at diagnosis, on average, than never users. This cohort study provides strong evidence of a dose-response association between indoor tanning and risk of melanoma and supports the hypothesis that vulnerability to the harmful effects of indoor tanning is greater at a younger age.
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