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Lifestyle
Ex-Miss Maryland urges FDA to intensify skin cancer fightPublished 11/21/08
WASHINGTON — Brittany Lietz, Miss Maryland 2006, first used tanning beds when she was 17 and getting ready for the prom; just three years later she was diagnosed with melanoma.
Lietz, now 24, joined a panel of doctors and advocates Thursday in urging the Food and Drug Administration to provide better regulation and information about skin cancer and sunscreen products.
"There should not be 16-, 17-, 18-, 19-, 20 year-olds being diagnosed with melanoma, that's simply unacceptable," she said, adding later, "There is no such thing as a safe tan." There are sunscreen products on the market offering...
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