In a breakthrough that could dramatically reduce the number of skin cancers, Professor Diona Damian and Professor Gary Halliday have found that vitamin B3, a nontoxic and inexpensive vitamin, has a range of anti-cancer effects just by being rubbed into the skin or taken as a pill. The vitamin helps to reduce existing precancerous skin lesions, reduced numbers of new non-melanoma skin cancers in a series of pilot studies, and may even help to prevent melanoma, one of Australia’s most deadly cancers.
Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world. If, as the researchers estimate, including vitamin B3 in sunscreen could prevent 50% of non-melanoma skin cancers, this research has the potential to dramatically improve skin cancer prevention. It can also help to heal existing precancerous lesions, and may even prevent melanoma and arsenic-induced skin cancer.
Read more at http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/50443/cancer-information/cancer-research-cancer-type/latest-research/our-research-into-skin-cancer/#m1MXYDBHU5YECOcV.99
