‘Smoking for the skin’: A call for stronger efforts to restrict indoor tanning

It is one of dermatologists’ most frustrating scenarios: A young person walks into the clinic with multiple skin cancers, yet the cause is not genetic. Melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, mainly affects adults older than 60 years, according to the Stanford Medicine Cancer Institute. That is why Pedram Gerami, MD, a skin cancer researcher and director of the Melanoma Clinic at