"The ultraviolet rays from indoor tanning are generally stronger than the summer sun at noon, " said Dawn Holman, a behavioral scientist who works in the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

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"Compliance has not been enforced so I'm not surprised people don't understand the risks, " said Meg Watson, study author and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

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To learn more and for a more detailed discussion of requirements for the prevention and cure or control of cancer, please read or listen to the three-part New Cancer Mentality interview series, Cancer in the Post-Genomic Era: Where do we go from here?

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Asians, Hispanics, and the uninsured had particularly lower chances of being screened, the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute said.

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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, according to the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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When it arrived in America it was detected within months thanks to the vigilance of the country's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in noticing clusters of a previously rare skin cancer that is often a symptom of immune-system collapse.

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