Marigrace Furby writes:

Subject: tanning bed danger???

I am wondering if it is possible to get breast cancer from tanning beds. Let me tell you what I refer to. I have had microcalcifications for over 10 years and they have never changed. Last July I joined a health club with a tanning bed. I had never been in one before. The first time I tanned the personal trainer let me go in for 4 minutes with no lotions, etc... Then the very next day I tanned for 6 minutes, then the next day (the final day) it was for 10 minutes and it really burnt me. I was tanning nude, and my nipples were severly burned. The redness did not go away for several days to over a week. It was very painful. Then this fall, during a routein mammogram, the microcalcifications had changed and begun to cluster. To make a long story short, I had to have three wire localizations with all three removed in biopsies on April 3, 2008. The clusters removed were not cancerous, however I have now been diagnosed with Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia and Lobular Carcinoma in Situ. I am being followed in a High Risk Breast Cancer Clinic and have a choice of Tamoxifen or double masectomy. Could the tanning bed and being burned cause the microcalcifications to change and cluster bringing on the two diagnoses above? Needless to say I quit the health club. THank you. Mari Furby (thefurbyfamily2006@yahoo.com)