{"id":43844,"date":"2026-01-01T01:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/newport-woman-felt-so-guilty-having-skin-cancer-while-pregnant\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T01:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:09:56","slug":"newport-woman-felt-so-guilty-having-skin-cancer-while-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/newport-woman-felt-so-guilty-having-skin-cancer-while-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport woman felt &#8216;so guilty&#8217; having skin cancer while pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A woman says she felt &#8220;so guilty&#8221; for having skin cancer while pregnant with her son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Emma Giannuzzi, 36, from Rogerstone, Newport, used sunbeds regularly in her late teens and was diagnosed with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/melanoma-skin-cancer\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">melanoma<\/a> twice &#8211; first at 23, and again during pregnancy after noticing a mole on her stomach, with tests after giving birth confirming the cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She is now urging people to opt for fake tanning products instead, warning of the dangers of sunbed use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/live-well\/seasonal-health\/sunscreen-and-sun-safety\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">NHS<\/a>, sunbeds are more harmful than natural sunlight because they emit concentrated UV radiation, increasing the risk of skin cancer, premature ageing, sunburn and eye damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Gilly Perkins, from the Sunbed Association, said professional salons follow &#8220;strict&#8221; safety rules, making controlled sunbed use safer than unregulated sunbathing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c7830z3x89zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman says she felt &#8220;so guilty&#8221; for having skin cancer while pregnant with her son. Emma Giannuzzi, 36, from Rogerstone, Newport, used sunbeds regularly in her late teens and was diagnosed with melanoma twice &#8211; first at 23, and again during pregnancy after noticing a mole on her stomach, with tests after giving birth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[896,397,1217,6956,4989,6238,983],"class_list":["post-43844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-cancer","tag-felt","tag-guilty","tag-newport","tag-pregnant","tag-skin","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43846,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844\/revisions\/43846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}