Topic: true stories

Young people want to believe that tanning is harmless. But Megan Putman, a 29-year-old physician assistant who works in oncology at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, is proof that that’s just not the case. Megan not only works with individuals living with cancer every day, she herself is a survivor of both Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (which she was diagnosed with at 24 and has since been cleared of) and Stage IA melanoma–the latter of which Megan credits to summer spent in the sun and time spent in a tanning bed. More »