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is it possible to get skin cancer from going to a tanning bed once for 8 minutes?
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um, i dont think 8 minutes will make a difference!
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probably not bt if you do it like every day for an hour then youll have skin cancer by the time you 50. hope i helped!
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i am not fo sho!
just dont do it again!
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anythings possible..
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no thats much to short of a time to get cancer .. if u do go tanning though they say that you should start off going for five minutes and then gradually work your up but never to exceed i think about 30 minutes in a tanning bed
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Alright, people get very paranoid about this, and they haven't really done the research, so lemme see if I can explain this.
Cancer is a natural, but rather infrequent result of some error in normal cell division. Your cells divide a *lot* over the course of a day, depending on the type of cell. If you combine these two facts...yes, cancerous cells appear in everyone, fairly often, it's something that happens naturally.
So how do we deal with it, since not everyone has cancer? Our white blood cells are able to detect and kill cancerous cells. They do this regularly, as long as they have the resources to do so (I don't want to bore/confuse you more than I need to, so let's just leave it at that).
The only thing a carcinogen does is increase the chance that a given cell division will be cancerous. Normally, since your body deals with it, there's no problem. However, if the number of cancerous mutations exceeds the capacity of your body to destroy them, you begin to develop the condition commonly called Cancer.
Now, tanning for 8 minutes just once? A minor increase in chance, very minor, probably decimal points of a percent for the skin. And even if it pushes a couple cells into mutation, your body should be able to easily kill them anyway. Only if your immune system is somehow deficient should you be *this* careful :x
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That would be extrememly odd were that to occurr. While I'm sure the odds of that happening are painfully low, you can't say that it would never happen. It just isn't likely to happen. But let's say you know that your family has a history of skin cancer, you have very fair skin, and burn easily... were that the case, then using a tanning bed would be a poor decision in the first place.
But anyway, the simple answer is: No, but it isn't impossible.
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