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Doing tanning in a tanning bed for 12 min 3 times a week, could that lead up cancer?
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Possible: Any skin ultraviolet light exposure can predispose to skin cancer. This is unnatural exposure and is in excess to what you normally get, so i would strongly recommend to avoid it.
Answered 3/12/2020
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