“…Sometimes forgotten results of sun exposure in patients with sarcoidosis (a disease which can be diffi cult to distinguish from tuberculosis) are hypercalcaemia , acute pancreatitis ,and soft tissue calcifi cation, and physicians advise patients with sarcoidosis to avoid sunlight or excessive exposure to sunlight. 4,5,6 The sanatorium regime per se does seem a thing of the past from the point of view of disruption of patients' personal, working or student lives, as well as the issue of building and staffi ng such units, which would be best sited as part of multidisciplinary hospitals. However the use of sunbeds as adjunctive therapy to the chemotherapy regime may be a more convenient and much less expensive option.…”