Excerpts from the Daily Mirror:
A PARTYGIRL who liked to top up her tan on sunbeds has died after battling skin cancer for two years.
Alexandra Lines, 22, a talented music student, was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma in 2003.
But despite doctors cutting it out, it was too late to save her and the cancer spread to her brain.
Yesterday, Alexandra's family and Cancer Research UK warned of the dangers of sunbathing.
They urged young people to seek medical advice quickly if they have a mole on their body that changes shape or colour.
Distraught dad John, 55, said: "The whole family is devastated because you think it can never happen to you and then it does. It shows nobody is exempt.
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I think that it is very upsetting and disturbing that so many people have died using sunbeds yet they are still so widely available. There are not enough warning about the risks of the damage that sunbeds can do to you. You can really only find information about the risks of it on the internet which is no good to people who do not hace access to a computer. There needs to be more guidlines put in place so that people are fully aware of the risks invovled when they go to lay down on a sunbed. There need to be strick rules that children under the age or 18 are not able to use sunbeds also that the shop assistant or manager needs to ask for identification even if the person looks old enough. I looked 18 when i was 14 so it is very important that these rules are kept and not broken.I think that in theses shops where there are sunbeds there needs to be a producdeuar in place so that the risks of using a sunbed are there for people to look at and be made aware of the danger invovled in using these sunbeds. People need to be more worried about what is going on on the inside of their bodies more than what they look like on the outside. Thank you for listening to me. Samantha Payne
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