{"id":222241,"date":"2025-09-21T04:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/dietary-supplement-found-effective-for-skin-cancer-prevention"},"modified":"2025-09-21T04:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:04:30","slug":"dietary-supplement-found-effective-for-skin-cancer-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/dietary-supplement-found-effective-for-skin-cancer-prevention","title":{"rendered":"Dietary supplement found effective for skin cancer prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dietary-supplement-found-effective-for-skin-cancer-prevention.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dietary supplement nicotinamide has been recommended by dermatologists for people with a history of skin cancer since 2015, when a clinical study with 386 participants showed that those who took the vitamin B3 derivative developed fewer new occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>However, data to validate those findings in a larger study group has been lacking because nicotinamide can be purchased over the counter without being entered into patients\u2019 medical records. In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamadermatology\/fullarticle\/2838591\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Sept. 17 in <i>JAMA Dermatology<\/i>, researchers found a way to get that data by analyzing records from the Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Nicotinamide is on the VA\u2019s official formulary, so the researchers checked the outcomes of 33,833 patients for their next skin <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> diagnosis following baseline <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment<\/a> with 500 milligrams of nicotinamide twice daily for longer than 30 days. They looked for occurrences of basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dietary supplement nicotinamide has been recommended by dermatologists for people with a history of skin cancer since 2015, when a clinical study with 386 participants showed that those who took the vitamin B3 derivative developed fewer new occurrences. However, data to validate those findings in a larger study group has been lacking because nicotinamide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}