Hugh Waters, MD, an associate professor at Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina, analyzed 263,600 U.S. individuals living who sought treatment for basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas or melanomas.
Here are three insights:
1. There were approximately 9,000 melanoma cases, 86,600 squamous cell carcinomas cases and 168,000 basal cell carcinomas cases attributed to tanning device use.
2. The treatment costs for these individuals totals $343.1 million annually.
3. Over the individuals’ lifetime, the healthcare industry will field a $127.3 billion loss.
Dr. Waters concluded, “The use of tanning devices is a significant contributor to illness and premature mortality in the United States, and also represents a major economic burden in terms of the costs of medical care and lost productivity.”
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