The sunbed industry has been slammed for threatening to sue a leading skin cancer charity for suggesting that regular use of sunbeds increases the risk of getting the deadly disease. Extraordinarily, the association’s chairman, Gary Lipman, has written directly to a few skin cancer patients who have spoken out in favour of a crackdown. And Cancer Research UK cites the conclusion of the International Agency for Research on Cancer that ‘there is sufficient evidence to show that using sunbeds causes melanoma skin cancer’. In a letter sent in January, lawyers RIAA Barker Gillette warn that claiming there is a ‘proven link’ between sunbed use and skin cancer is ‘factually incorrect’. She said the legal threats were ‘unacceptable’, adding: ‘Melanoma UK is just trying to save lives.’The Sunbed Association denied its lawyers had made threats.

Source: Daily Mail April 05, 2019 23:15 UTC