Vitamin B3 Keeps Skin Cancer Away

The B3 supplement pills have a cost of less than $10 a month and are available in a large number of pharmacies and food stores all across the world. New study shows that taking a B vitamin could help prevent common skin cancers in those who are exposed to highest risk for the disease.

Researchers at the University of Sydney analyzed 386 people who consumed over-the-counter B3 vitamins a 23 percent reduction of non-melanoma skin cancers in subjects who had contacted at least two of the lesions in the previous five years.

Squamous cell carcinoma and Basal cell carcinoma are common types of skin cancer which are often caused by exposure to the sunlight. While the quota of survival for patients whom are affected by these cancers is good, but they tend to reoccur even after successful therapy. In many cases, if left unresolved, these kinds of skin cancers can form large lesions which may need surgical removal.

For the past ten years, an increasing amount of importance has been placed on the relevance of protecting our skin from the sun in order to prevent cancer and also premature aging. This research is promising in that vitamin B3 might become another counter-attack move with the added benefit of keeping away re-occurrence.

This is a small research with a unique demographic that may not necessarily be valid in other parts of the world. It will be discussed by the study authors when they present their discovery at the American Society of Clinical Oncology which will take place later this month in Chicago.

According to recent reports, there are more than 3 million Americans that suffer with these forms of skin cancer each year.

Main cause of skin cancer is the exposure to sun. Sunscreen has been pushed forward for years as an effective way to reduce risk of skin cancer. According to the reasearchers, nicotinamide actively offers skin cells an “energy boost, ” stimulating DNA repair and enhancing the skin’s immune system from ultraviolet light.

It is not certain how long the effect from consuming the pills might last. The vitamin supplement also seemed to reduce the numbers of scaly, thick patches of skin that can become cancer. Those problems were not observed with nicotinamide in the study.

Scientists said that nicotinamide has many differences from a more common form of B3 called niacin.

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