A simple daily vitamin may help prevent the most common types of skin cancer in people at high risk of the disease, according to new research from Australia.
A study conducted at the University of Sydney found that nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3, reduced by 23 percent the incidence of new, non-melanoma skin cancers in people who had at least two of the cancers in the previous five years. The study compared nicotinamide taken as a pill twice daily to a placebo.
The findings may offer a way to reduce the health burden and cost of skin cancer . . .
