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Chicago Passes City Ordinance Banning Minors from Tanning Beds
... passed a similar lifesaving law. Just last week, Chicago became the first major U.S. city to vote to protect young people from skin cancer and melanoma by banning tanning bed use among minors. Chicago's tanning bed ban passed quickly and with overwhelming support. Spearheaded by Alderman ... Americans still use tanning beds, despite evidence showing people who use an indoor tanning device are about 75 percent more likely to develop melanoma. Through the power of advocacy, we're fighting back against cancer with prevention. Chicago Passes City Ordinance Banning Minors ...
Guest Post: Kansas Minors No Longer Exposed to the Dangers of Indoor Tanning
... others from the same dangers. In memory of Leigh Ann Twombly (May 24, 1965 - July 14, 2014) It's been nearly two years since I lost my sister to melanoma. As I sat down to write this piece about Leigh Ann's battle with the disease, I must admit that I have a lump in my throat and I'm ... that time, she was constantly exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation both directly and indirectly. When my family lost Leigh Ann in 2014 to melanoma, we were told by her doctors that it was very likely due to her early years of using a tanning bed. Back then, we had no idea there were ... of cancer in the United States. These statistics are all too familiar now. Did you know that indoor tanning use before the age of 35 increases melanoma risk by 59 percent? After Leigh Ann's death, I remember making a vow to my son, Samuel, who was 12 years old at the time, that I would do ...
Tanning Beds Are Riskier Than Tongue Depressors
... as tongue depressors and bandages? That's right a device that if used before the age of 35 increases one's likelihood of getting melanoma by 75 percent is classified in the same risk category as your everyday bandage. It goes without saying that this is ludicrous and must be ...
Don't Fry Day
... with tanning on each device. Vermont legislators saw the urgency of this issue and the value in prevention since the number of cases of melanoma in women ages 15 and older in Vermont increased by 34 percent between 2004 and 2008. ACS CAN and American Cancer Society staff and ...
Engaging Youth in ACS CAN’s Days at the Capitol
... for cancer advocacy stems from a history of cancer in her family including her grandmother (a breast cancer survivor), both grandfathers (melanoma survivor and lung cancer patient, respectively) and her best friend (childhood brain cancer survivor). Johnston said she will continue to ...
From Bench to Bedside: Progress at Risk
... from cancer by highlighting federally-funded scientists who have discovered new ways to treat specific cancers, including breast cancer, melanoma and lung cancer and the patients who benefited from those advances. We brought some of the individuals highlighted in the report to ...
New York, Rhode Island Take Steps to Protect Minors from Skin Cancer
... with lawmakers during the campaigns. Maggie Biggane and Collette Coyne both lost their daughters, Mollie and Collette, far too soon due to melanoma. They bravely shared their stories with New York lawmakers to show how comprehensive legislation is necessary to protect all minors from ...
Personalized Medicine: The Future of Cancer Care
... (EGFR and ALK) that make up the array of lung cancer types. In other types of cancer, we also have targeted therapies, for example against melanoma with a BRAF genetic mutation and in breast cancer with abnormal genes for a protein known as HER2. While we have seen the development of a ...