New research from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggests that certain types of tanning cream could prevent skin cancer.
From Giz Magazine:
Findings from a study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital in Boston have rewritten science's understanding of the process of skin tanning – an insight that has enabled them to develop a promising way of protecting fair-skinned people from skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight.
The study, to be published by the journal Nature in its Sept. 21 issue, involved giving tans to specially engineered mice, not by exposing them to ultraviolet rays in sunlight (the usual route to a tan), but by applying a cream that switched on the tanning machinery in their skin cells. Because people who tan easily, or have naturally dark skin, are far less likely to develop skin cancer than fair-skinned individuals – who tend to get sunburns rather than tan – the findings suggests that medicinally-induced tans can protect at-risk individuals from the disease.
What's Driving This Trend
- Medicinally-induced Tans
- The use of tanning cream to induce tan as a way to protect fair-skinned people from skin cancer.
- Skin Cancer Prevention
- New ways of preventing skin cancer through non-invasive methods such as tanning creams.
- Science-based Tanning
- Innovative insight into the process of skin tanning is providing new opportunities to develop safer ways of tanning.
Who This Affects Most
- Pharmaceuticals
- The development of new types of medicinally-induced tanning creams presents an opportunity for pharmaceutical companies to enter the beauty market.
- Cosmetics
- The use of tanning creams as a protective measure presents opportunities for cosmetic companies to offer non-invasive skin protection products.
- Sunless Tanning
- The science-based approach to tanning presents an opportunity for sunless tanning businesses to adapt and innovate their products and services.
