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| Subject: Skin Cancer Risk May Be Lowered By B3 Vitamin Tablets, Researchers Find Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:47 am | |
| A tablet readily available in health food stores may be the key to lowering skin cancer risk, according to new Australian research.
Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, the Cancer Council advising 80 percent of new cancers in Australians are sun cancers and that doctors take one million skin cancer consultations every year.
In a 12-month trial of high-risk patients who had previously had non-melanoma skin cancers, researchers from the University of Sydney found that nicotinamide -- a form of vitamin B3 -- lowered the risk of skin cancer by 25 percent, in a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/10/22/skin-cancer-vitamin-b3_n_8353644.html?ncid=edlinkauhpmg00000001 |
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