ISLAMABAD: Recent research has suggested that Vitamin B3 might play a role in the prevention of fatal diseases, among which cancer is the one with the highest rate of occurrence, particularly skin cancer.
A reliable online medical source reports that the research just published on the topic promotes the idea of introducing Vitamin B3 to people’s daily lives, as the chances of skin cancer development lower up to a significant extent among the ones who take it.
The research that found this out has been published in JAMA Dermatology, a medical journal that has been largely considered the very front of dermatology. The research subject comprises of over 33,000 American veterans who were studied with taking nicotinamide (one contributor to Vitamin B3) leading to a decrease in non-melanoma skin cancer cases.
The findings determined that participants receiving nicotinamide had an overall risk of skin cancers like basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma reduced by 14%.
In addition, patients who were treated with nicotinamide after the first skin cancer diagnosis had the recurrence risk reduced to about 50%.
The research indicates that even the patients with multiple cancer occurrences were less likely to be affected by the recurrence of the disease while receiving nicotinamide treatment, albeit with a little bit less intensity than the others.
The current study, which is based on large real-world data, strengthens the earlier belief that nicotinamide skincare line is consistently effective against skin cancer.
Experts believe that nicotinamide might be especially beneficial for the dermatological patients at high risk of skin cancer, particularly for those who have already been diagnosed with the disease, on the condition that they take Vitamin B3 twice daily.
Nevertheless, experts still advocate that through the usage of Vitamin B3 supplements, sun protection by means of sunscreen and other measures should be implemented.
Moreover, the experts have made it clear that Vitamin B3 should not be regarded as the replacement for sunscreen or any other sun protection methods but rather as an adjunct.
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Additionally, they made it clear that Vitamin B3 should not be regarded as an alternative to sunscreen protection or any other means of protecting against the sun, but instead as a supplemental defense that aids in DNA repair and inflammation reduction, especially among the high-risk population.
