{"id":224007,"date":"2025-10-25T04:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/nicotinamide-significantly-lowers-skin-cancer-risk"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:21:37","slug":"nicotinamide-significantly-lowers-skin-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/nicotinamide-significantly-lowers-skin-cancer-risk","title":{"rendered":"Nicotinamide Significantly Lowers Skin Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nicotinamide-significantly-lowers-skin-cancer-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicotinamide, a vitamin B3 derivative, could significantly reduce skin cancer risk. The corresponding study was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamadermatology\/article-abstract\/2838591\"> JAMA Dermatology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no guidelines for when to start treatment with nicotinamide for skin cancer prevention in the general population,\u201d said the study\u2019s corresponding author, Lee Wheless, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Dermatology and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/10\/251019120525.htm\"> press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results would really shift our practice from starting it once patients have developed numerous skin cancers to starting it earlier,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicotinamide, a vitamin B3 derivative, could significantly reduce skin cancer risk. The corresponding study was published in JAMA Dermatology. \u201cThere are no guidelines for when to start treatment with nicotinamide for skin cancer prevention in the general population,\u201d said the study\u2019s corresponding author, Lee Wheless, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Dermatology and Medicine at Vanderbilt [\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-224007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224007","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=224007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}