UV treatment for psoriasis is a real thing — but so is the fact that tanning beds cause skin cancer. So what is the truth about indoor tanning and psoriasis?
If you have psoriasis, you probably already know that tanning beds have frequently been cited as a possible treatment for flare-ups — and psoriasis is notoriously hard to treat and can be extremely itchy and painful. But it's also true that we know how harmful tanning beds actually are — so harmful, in fact, that the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer categorizes them in the same cancer-causing group as cigarettes and plutonium.
“I can't tell you how many patients I have who have used tanning beds as a treatment for psoriasis and ultimately wind up with melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers,” says Dr. Geraghty. “I used to see such patients regularly to help care for their psoriasis rash and I would encourage them to stop tanning. Now I see them every three months not for their psoriasis, but to freeze off pre-cancers, biopsy suspicious lesions, and surgically remove their melanomas and other skin cancers.
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